Adaptation in nesting and sheltering.
I start with materials – by gathering industrial detritus from my daily rural walk. These materials range from fencing wire, plastic land drain, and agricultural wrapping, to car parts, fly tipped rubbish and agricultural twine. It is a slow process – the materials come to me, and gradually suggest how they might be used. In…
Memorials to lost trees.
Over the past year I have been working on a series of small assemblages made from plastic waste collected during my daily walk in the Hampshire countryside. These ‘bouquets’ and ‘floral tributes’ were started during my residency at Chapel Arts Studios, discussed in my previous post. The experience of the daily drive on busy A…
Verge
I recently took advantage of an opportunity open to CAS Associate Artists to takeover the gallery space at St Mary’s Chapel, Andover, Hampshire. I used the Chapel for a week to test and document new work that is concerned with the life of the verge. The journey to and from Andover along the major trunk…
The Spring/Summer iteration.
Earlier in the year I answered an open call and had my proposal accepted for a site specific work as part of an artist-run competition run by Little Forest Land Art. The site is one of ancient woodland, on the edge of a meadow, on what was once a pig farm. A woodland path has…
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