Above are some images from my installation at Partisan Cafe, York. Partisan have arranged their cafe for socially distant dining, and put up an open sided marquee in their back yard. I have put up my costume banners up on the inside of the marquee, and spray painted my birds on the wall alongside.
Together, Separate, Connected.... This is my response to Lockdown, attempting to share the experience of being alone as individuals in our own worlds, but connected to all our wider networks, as well as the networks of disease, and of track and trace. Isolation, bubble, cluster, peak, spike, bounce.... together separate connected. it's in the window of my workspace, Pica Studios, Grape Lane, York.
Below are some images taken at an installation I put up as part of Holmfirth Art Week. The title was She Moved Through The Fair, and the installation was accompanied by a soundscape soundtrack, featuring music that increased the sense of mystery and strangeness felt by walking amongst the figures and birds. The life size costumed figures were deliberately not representive of any particular ethnic grouping or time in history; they celebrated the very human characteristic of decoration, pattern and adornment seen in every part of the world at any time in history.
This is an installation that is currently on (until end November 2018) in the main corridor of York Hospital. It is to celebrate 70 years of the NHS. I have called it "Happy Birthday NHS - Our Safety Net for 70 years". I have portrayed the extraordinary feats that humans achieve, represented by the high wire and juggling acts; the point is that the NHS gives us the confidence to live life to the full, knowing that it is always there for us. I also hope I have portrayed that the NHS itself is juggling with the increasing demands of the population; the NHS itself is a high wire act at times.
Above and below are images of installations I made for Bloom York 2018. Weeds and Wildflowers were in an empty shop in the town centre. The lupins were in a shop in York, and were shortlisted for the best windows for Bloom York.
Above : an installation of papercut winter trees and skiers, with a few wild animals behind the trees; hanging in the window of the Owl and Monkey shop in York.
Below : An installation in the window of Pica Studios, York. This was part of an Art and Activism event, and consisted of papercuts of weeds and their roots, titled Uprooted. Also I presented a "nature table" containing all sorts of glass jars and bottles holding weeds in water, with their roots clearly visible. This was titled Hidden Exposed.
Below : An installation in the window of Pica Studios, York. This was part of an Art and Activism event, and consisted of papercuts of weeds and their roots, titled Uprooted. Also I presented a "nature table" containing all sorts of glass jars and bottles holding weeds in water, with their roots clearly visible. This was titled Hidden Exposed.
This window was part of an installation called the Coral Reef. It was made of a combination of cut paper and perspex shapes, that drifted dreamily in the air currents. Swimming between the coral shapes were shoals of fish in glittering colours. The installation was lit at night in November 2017, and enjoyed by shoppers and people out and about in this part of York.
The above bird papercuts were installed in an empty shop in York. It was titled Birds Know no Borders, and was a reflection of the freedom of birds to go wherever they need to, without passports and border checks.
The above pictures are of an installation I put up at the City Screen, to celebrate the Tour de France coming to York in 2014. The wall was a riotous mix of cartoon cyclists flashing by (200 altogether, all cut and painted by hand), maps, the road of Tour de France winners through history, and many many images (most of them painted by me) showing miniature cyclists in many different backgrounds. This is to suggest the changing scenery that the cyclists pass through - inside their heads, and outside in the environments they pass through.
These photos are of an installation in York celebrating 50 years of Jamaican Independence in 2012. The speaker stack shown above, was made by Alice Maynard, the graffiti by Adam Binns, but all the rest of the work was mine. I am passionate about reggae, and this installation was full of colour and exuberance and festivity.
The above images are from an installation in front of huge plate glass windows overlooking the River Ouse at York's City Screen. The title was "And I'm Floating in the Most Peculiar Way". Day-time and night-time, the spacemen, planets and rockets shimmered and quivered in space.
These images show a paper hanging that I made for the Lotte Inch Gallery in York. The work was a response to an exhibition featuring the work of artists inclulding Terry Frost, Breon O'Casey, Barbara Heworth, Ben Nicholson and others.
