From what began as a good opportunity to exhibit at a decent gallery in the region, A Radical Redemption became a meticulously obsessed-over project. Having had to initially cancel, when things got a little too much, I got a new opportunity for the exhibition to go ahead in the May 2022. I’ve been producing workContinue reading “A Radical Redemption @Bloc Projects”
Category Archives: Drawings
‘All those promises…’ (new work)
‘All those promises…’ (2022, mixed media on paper). This is the most recent work that will feature in my upcoming exhibition, more details of which coming up shortly. Thanks.
PLEASE FORGIVE MY 3AM NAIVETY
“please forgive my 3am naivety” (2022 mix of analogue and digital media). I’m aware that even the attempt to make work of this far more direct nature makes it susceptible to the trap of representing a ‘protest aesthetic’ and thus potentially condemned to stylised impotency. I’m aware that making work like this makes ME lookContinue reading “PLEASE FORGIVE MY 3AM NAIVETY”
Burn(out)
kept a low profile of late, began working on a series of smaller drawings, that became a project about ‘burnout’. It’s a word that’s more and more frequently used these days, it’s a word I’ve used recently about myself, and it relates to so many things such as the body, mental and emotional exhaustion, tryingContinue reading “Burn(out)”
2021 IN ART
I admittedly don’t use this blog as much as I used to. 10 years ago it was an ongoing projection of political and philosophical and personal wranglings. This was at the very precipice of a decade that wouldn’t only come to be defined by our immersion into the social media feeds, but also in howContinue reading “2021 IN ART”
Hipster Psychosis
‘Hipster Psychosis’ (2021, mixed media on paper) I’ve long seen my works as successive chapters in a book I can never complete, because it is lived in. Thus ‘Hipster Psychosis’ is the latest ‘chapter’. I think what has motivated this drawing more than anything is the ‘post lockdown’ ‘back to normal’ culture, which feels likeContinue reading “Hipster Psychosis”
‘Endure the Night of this World’
‘Endure the Night of this World’ (2021, mixed media on paper) ‘Endure the Night of this World’ (mixed media on paper, 2021). The first project I’ve really undertaken in 2021, apart from the overlapping ones from 2020, is carefully balanced on what could be seen as despair, but purposely pulls back from it – IContinue reading “‘Endure the Night of this World’”
2020 in artwork
I think I’ve certainly run out of steam for this year now. So I wanted to reflect on the works I’ve made. I started 2020 a little burnt out from a year long film project I’d undertook during the completion of the my Masters. I thought it was brought so much to a point ofContinue reading “2020 in artwork”
‘When they came for me I Felt Nothing…’
‘When they came for me I Felt Nothing…’ (2020, mixed media on paper) It Wasn’t the best day to put aside to photo-document my new work (lighting is terrible), but anyway… If I’m to condense this work into one subject, ‘‘When they came for me I Felt Nothing…’ ’ is about an experience of desensitisation,Continue reading “‘When they came for me I Felt Nothing…’”
Limited edition map books
Finally got around to getting these done! I’ve been trying to work out a way of making my work own able for years. I’ve always found selling originals problematic; not only does it sometimes seem counterproductive to sell something I have spent 3 months developing, and then have nothing to exhibit, it also doesn’t makeContinue reading “Limited edition map books”
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