Art Work
Project List
- Housing Units
- 2x2x2
- Mies van de Rhoe Cube
- Drawings and Collages 2004-5
- Hackney Photograph Series
- Barbican Photograph Series
- Multiple Occupancy Series
- Sand Pieces
- Wall Installation
Housing Units
Housing Units, 2005 was created for the Think and Wonder exhibition at the Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green and is inspired by both the dolls houses in the museums collection and the tower blocks of East London. Viewers are invited to interact with the work by re-arranging the coloured panels creating their own colour compositions.
2x2x2
2x2x2 is an extension of the collages I was making in late 2004/early 2005, which experimented with ways of representing 3-dimensional shapes in 2-dimesions. I was intrigued by the idea that layering the same shape on top of itself created the illusion of 3 dimensions. The perspex piece takes this idea one stage further by becoming 3 dimensional again. Viewers are invited to take the pieces apart and try to put them back together.
Mies van de Rhoe Cube
The idea for the Mies van de Rohe Cube came from playing with puzzle pieces known as pentacubes (a shape formed by 5 touching cubes) and being fascinated by the architectural structures you can build with them. In my puzzle the viewer can make both a 5x5x5 cube and a model of the Country Brick House Project by Mies van de Rohe. There are over 500,000 ways to make the cube but only one solution for the house.
Drawings and Collages 2004-5
This series of drawings and collages directly influenced my first interactive sculptures. It was through playing with ways of layering transparent coloured paper that led to the perspex piece, 2x2x2, and exploring the idea of movable planes that led to Housing Units. Most of the drawings explore units, spaces and how they connect with each other and various methods of representing 3-dimensional shapes in 2 dimensions.
Hackney Photograph Series
The Hackney photographs are my first digitally manipulated images, carefully composed grid like images were shot on film which was then scanned and edited to create even flatter images. The result of this process are images where reality seems to shift, the signs of habitation now so scarce in the image and yet the traces of long term use very much apparent. The series is both a homage to and a criticism of concrete urban architecture.
Barbican Photograph Series
All of my photographs are taken in places I have become intimately familiar with and the Barbican series came out of my experiences of working at the centre as a steward. I found the combination of labyrinth like walkways and stairwells confusing but enchanting, with nothing much but the architecture to look at for hours on end I became fascinated by the way the building framed itself.
Multiple Occupancy Series
This series was shot at night on the Churchill Gardens Estate, Pimlico, primarily because I was struck by the estate's use of light. If you drive past it on Cheslea Embankment it appears as though rows of light are unfolding beside you. I was also interested in the repetition and variation within the blocks, each one is comprised of the same basic units in a slightly different order, giving each block and in turn resident their own identity within the whole.
Sand Pieces
My sand pieces were created by laboriously dusting sand mixed with pigment onto the floor in precise geometric patterns, creating a carpet of intense colour and texture which seems to oscillate with energy. The pieces directly reference the Sand Mandala's of Tibet, which are diagrams showing the order of the Universe, however my pieces are more explorations of the universal law of mathematics than the universe itself.
Wall Installation
This installation is comprised of 24 individually cast bricks of wax, the dimensions of which directly relate to the room. The bricks were then placed in a wall of two bricks high spanning the width of the room, in the place where the scars of a recently removed partition wall are visible. The piece thus plays with the idea that architecture has a memory and with our changing perception of the space when re-divided.
