Installation ‘The Missing Guest’
Last week I showed my latest work ‘The missing Guest’ in a group show, amongst artists; Bridie Lander, Rachel Darbourne and Drew Markou. At the. Gabi Green gallery in Munich. Our group show… Continue reading
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Cinderella’s severed Hands not glass slipper
I have been doing more research into hands recently, concentrating on the hands’ connection to the mouth. This relationship is reflected in language; ‘hand to mouth’ Making links; The Medieval etymology of hand comes… Continue reading
Using white and salt in my work.
Derek Jarman – Chroma (1994) Extracts from the chapter’White Lies,’ Jarman explores the significance of white which also touches upon many of my own research interests; religious rituals, salt, pain, loss and purification … Continue reading
He Let Go Of My Hand
The absence of touch, a marker of loss. The grip of holding hands suggests human attachment, both parties are touchers and touched. Then the grip releases and a loss appears as an abyss.
Dwell, dwelling, presence and lingering.
“An indelible softness that lingers in the mouth for an indefinite duration, that survives swallowing.” (Merleau-Ponty ‘The world of perception’)
Disintegrating hands
Inside and Outside of Emotional Pain
Fragmented body in a Lover’s Discourse
‘Any thought, any feeling, any interest aroused in the amorous subject by the loved body.’
Place settings in history
Looking at dining/place settings in history. I am particularly drawn to the use of salvers in 1670 and the fact that candles were only lit for the dessert course.
The missing guest
Fading / fade-out
Painful ordeal in which the loved being appears to withdraw from all contact, without such enigmatic indifference even being directed against the amorous subject or pronounced to the advantage of anyone else, world or rival.
Kitchen Processes
Thinking about how I often use the kitchen to make my work. But I don’t just make in the kitchen, but borrow many of it’s processes, objects and it’s materials…
Collective experiences
My own state of consciousness altered by the psychologically charged, multimedia practice of Susan Hiller.
Memoirs of a mouth
A little black book filled with memoirs of a mouth…..