Lockdowns and Screens – Has the World Gone Pear-shaped?
Lockdown boosted online shopping, and with it arrived new eco-friendly packaging materials. When stretched they become screen-like forms. During the pandemic we used screens and masks to protect ourselves from contamination. These screens create a dreamlike filter that delineates space in fragmented form, in grids with patterns of transparency and shadows, evoking a sense of the hidden. What do we screen ourselves from – what is disguised and what is revealed?
Life’s a Riot… 2019 explored
Form – neither abstract nor representative of the human – and Colour.
This inspired a video recording of a musical improvisation with the body of work, composed and performed by the iyatraQuartet
dis – em – bodied
Working as an Alexander teacher, I am drawn to the theme of our-selves, the landscape of our physicality. I try to find expression of our fragility, tenderness and resilience through carving stone and wood. More surreal combinations of materials with opposing qualities may convey pain, vulnerability and hope.
‘Within You Without You’ – The Seven Deadly Sins
These seven allegorical pieces were made for the beautiful courtyard of Lumen United Reformed Church & Community Centre URC, London.
The sculptures, made of black clay, household paint, explore the darker and more difficult sides of our lives, those aspects that on the one hand create energy, yet can drive us to destruction.
2014. Dimension vary within 60 x 50 x 50 cm
Excavating…
Stone and wood have always been of special interest to me. Direct carving seems to be a dialogue between finding form in the material and the material withholding or revealing form, between imposing or excavating.