Category Archives: Drawings

‘The Place of Dead Ends’

The Place of Dead Ends (2013, biro and collage on paper, 120X100cm) The idea for The Place of Dead Ends fixed itself together whilst I was walking around the park-lands of Greenwich, London (a place saturated with popular history), in the autumn of 2012. I stumbled across the Queen Elizabeth [the 1st] Oak, a treeContinue reading “‘The Place of Dead Ends’”

The Planet’s Mental Illness

The Planet’s Mental Illness (2012, biro on paper, 105X145cm) The first thing I need to explain about this piece is why I chose the word planet instead of world; the latter being specific to humanity and all of its concerns, whilst the former describes everything that makes up the ball of rock, gas and liquidContinue reading “The Planet’s Mental Illness”

Who Would Want To Listen To This?

Who Would Want To Listen To This? (2011/2012) Biro on paper, 130X100cm The piece is called ‘Who would want listen to this?’ because such big threats of an ecological collapse which would cause unimaginable disruption and destruction are often too frightening for us to think about (only previously seen by our eyes on cinema screens),Continue reading “Who Would Want To Listen To This?”

20 Years From Now I’ll Make it, Somehow

’20 years from now I’ll make it, somehow’ was made in late 2007, and was quite a blatant showcase of all my anxieties about what humanity faces in the 21st century. Nearly 4 years on, we are still on the same track towards a right old mess. We still don’t have enough time in theContinue reading “20 Years From Now I’ll Make it, Somehow”

ILL EQUIPPED

ILL EQUIPPED (2011) Pencil crayon on paper, 70X110cm The idea for Ill-Equipped was sparked by an article titled ‘pancake people’ in the Magazine Adbusters; a term used to described the mental make-up of humans being tossed around in the info-frenzied world of endless updated techno-gadgets: a wide, far-reaching, grasp of information (piling up on usContinue reading “ILL EQUIPPED”