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Birthday present for a friend who’s grandfather kept racing pigeons. These birds form an important part of his memories of both his grandfather and his own childhood.
Pigeons, Dubrovnik, 2009. Illuminated racing pigeon timer case, magic lantern slide, glass, nails, pigeons rings, string
Pigeons Dubrovnik - detail of vintage magic lantern slide
Pigeons Dubrovnik - detail from side of case
Someone To Watch Over You, 2009. Triptych. Wood, vintage photographs, carte de vistes, and newspaper cuttings. 83cm x 115cm x 3.5cm.
I’ve been working on this piece for a while and just got it done in time to submit it to the Artsway Open exhibition. For me it speaks of our significance or insignificance as individuals within history. How fleeting and anonymous one life can seem in the framework of time and yet how we long to be known, to be seen, to be called by name. Even the few individuals who we subjectively label as having a level of significance worthy for history to preserve are temporal. Their images and deeds may be recorded but the recollection of their identity is subject to change, manipulation, it is as vulnerable as our own personal memories. Time is relentless – it precedes us and will outlast our existence.
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Just noticed I’ve been a bit slack with the blogging the past few weeks so thought I’d do a quick update!
The Bristol Windows 204 installation is now down but it had a lot of good feedback from the public and The Big Issue were interested in doing a feature on it. Annoyingly the email request got delayed via an incorrect Bristol address so I didn’t get it in time to supply images for the issue deadline. They asked to be kept in touch with future work though so thats good.
Work on the Ebony Tower project with Dean is still ongoing and still exciting to us both. I think alongside producing work for it we will start working on a funding application to the arts council to help with exhibiting of the finished work and development of some of the pieces.
selecting images for current piece
The piece I’m working on at the moment is not actually related to the Ebony Tower, it looks at the concept of our significance/insignificance as anonymous individuals within the framework time. I’m pushing to get it finished in the next week as I really would like it to be one of the three pieces that I submit to the Artsway open exhibition. The other two pieces I am planning to submit are the peacock bed piece and the lace covered window. They are the pieces that I submitted to Emergency 4 but unfortunately I didn’t get selected. Disapointing because I would have loved to be part of that show but the standard of the 10 people who were selected from the hundreds of applications was very high!
The other show that is coming up that I am planning to submit to is ReOpen- Poole’s second open art exhibition. As the theme involves “. . recreating in a new form and new style, giving well known materials, objects, forms, ideas, concepts and behaviours a completely new life and appearance. . .” I thought it would fit in well with my work.
Oh and I went to Bruges for the weekend and it was gorgeous!! 
On Sunday I went to Bristol to install, “The Very Thought Of You” at Windows 204. This is the first opportunity I have had to install a piece in a public space myself so good practice and thanks to my happy helper Dean, I think it looked pretty good.
Windows 204 is an art venue that “makes use of a shop window front to bring art to all members of the community and create a continuing dialogue with the public about what art can be.” I think the black and white, aged look of the shop front worked well with the style of the piece and even the reflection onto the window of the old buildings opposite complimented the narrative of Peggy and Ron’s love story.
Suspended vintage wedding dress - burnt, stiched and pinned at the back
suspended love letters from the 1930's
The Very Thought of You, will be viewable for two weeks from 30th August and can be found at 204 Gloucester road, Bristol.
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