2020
Variable Floor 1.1 (after Vesalius, Bliss, Wilson). Oak floorboards, lasercut plywood, screenprint on card, chalk, 206 risographs. Dimensions varied
Variable Floor 3.1 (widerstand). Oak floorboards, screenprint on card, concrete with inlaid fixed resistors, beeswax with acrylic, postage stamps. Dimensions varied.
Variable Floor 4.1 ((s)cr(e)y(e) in the same river twice). Oak floorboards, spraypaint, risograph, bronze, obsidian, screenprint on card, mild steel, retort stand with laser module, aluminium photo-plate. Dimensions varied.
A performance work, part of The Same Tendency in Summerhall’s Basement Gallery, Edinburgh, 1/3/2019.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds.
Photo credit: Ross Fraser McLean.
A mixed-media work, created for The Same Tendency in Summerhall’s Basement Gallery, Edinburgh.
Concrete, ratchet strap, vinyl wall text, Dimensions variable, 2019.
Photo credit: Ross Fraser McLean.
2018
Part of of the MA Print degree show at the Royal College of Art.
Inspired by Walter Benjamin's "angel of history" passage from the essay, Theses on the Philosophy of History, the artist has created work based on the natural material of chalk with its industrial successor, concrete. The show is centred around a sound installation, Bone Splitter/Bone Setter, in which a voice describes its attempts to learn from and recreate the physical rubble of a relationship. He has combined this with works in print and sculpture, creating pieces that morph the chalk into unnatural geometric forms, as well as merging them with concrete, highlighting the constant processing that takes place during the breakdown, alteration, and development of the material.
Bone Splitter / Bone Setter. Durational sound installation. 6 minutes (6 minutes delay between playbacks).
For the purpose of viewing on this website, this version is edited to be played in basic stereo. The install version is played incrementally across four speakers throughout the exhibition space.
Install view.
Install view.
Install view.
Install view.
A Bone is Broken and Reset, as a Rock is removed from the Earth, and then Returned. Screenprint, chalk & blackboard paint on paper (diptych). 132 x 95 cm
And the Hillside is Grey and Solid, pt. I. Concrete, chalk & lashing strap. 75 x 75 x 38 cm
Detail.
Detail.
A Study of Bones, to Determine the Course of a Landscape. Lithograph. 42 x 58 cm.
As the Weight of You Becomes More and More. Lithograph. 52 cm x 67 cm.
Down on the Surface of the Stone. Lithograph. 52 cm x 67 cm.
I Feel You… I can Feel You. Wall-mounted chalk. 16 x 10 x 5 cm
And the Hillside is Grey and Solid, pt. II. Concrete & chalk. 75 x 75 x 25 cm.
Detail.
Detail.
2017
Lasercut artist’s envelope, containing 5 lithographs. Edition of 45, 20 x 13.5cm
An artist's envelope created for a multiples project with the MA Print course at RCA. Each envelope has a "hole-shaped" window, and contains five photo-lithographs, each images of the artist in some way falling into the space that occupies the "hole".
Thanks to Camila Mora Scheihing.
2017
A site-specific performance that focuses on the idea of the "unintentional monument", a structure/object that has gained cultural or historical significance beyond its original purpose. The artist wears a denim jacket with a large patterned patch on the back, burned with the message, "WE WILL DIE, THEY WON'T, AND THAT IS OKAY." He travels to Druridge Bay, Northumberland, and climbs up the sand dunes toward one of the many concrete military structures along the coast. once there, he uses yellow chalk to draw the same pattern on his jacket, on the concrete. He then sets off three yellow smoke-grenades, adopting a salute like pose whilst holding them. the three poses mirror some of the subjects of Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's photo-series, Byker, in relation to the performance's location on the Northumbrian Coast.
The artist's actions set out to show the location as both a place of significance and worship, as well as a place of desire and invasion.
Thanks to Nevill & Kate Wilson, and Katie Hawthorne.
2017
A solo exhibition that was the result of a six week residency, at the University of Calgary, Alberta.
Thanks to Bill Laing, Rick Calkins, and Steve Nunoda.
Install view.
Install view.
Bowerbird (a Blue Existence, and a Scarlet Heart, for You and Your Loved Ones), Cedar, Concrete Relief & Canvas.
(left) On the Coloured Stones, Overlooking the Black Waved Sea, Concrete Relief.
(right) Bateleur (Balanced on the Acrobat's Wing), Cedar, Concrete Relief & Polyester.
(front view) Bateleur (Balanced on the Acrobat's Wing).
It May Sink, It May Swim, Concrete Relief.
YSWSTTBO , Lithograph.
Seed for the Forest, Block for The Sand, Concrete Relief.
Keep a Haad, Lithograph.
Install view.
