Category Archives: Drawings

21st Century Limbo-id Men (2017, mixed media on paper)

The driving force behind the direction of works like Dead Ethics Hysteria has its roots in a cold winter almost 7 years back. I remember my anticipations of the ‘austere age’ as we entered the winter of 2010. Back then my head was lead-lined with heavy expectations of imminent ecological collapse, peak oil, and freakContinue reading “Dead Ethics Hysteria”

(2017, ink on paper)

(2017, mixed media on paper) I’m writing this in a world that is a week into the Trump administration. I can’t yet tell if it’s caused the biggest cloud of confusion and panic since the Twin Towers came down (it’s shock certainly eclipses the event that’s stuck in the middle of these – the financialContinue reading “Stuck in The Sediment of Suffering”

(2016, mixed media on paper) My last drawing of 2016. Literally finished at 11:20pm on December 31st.

(2016, mixed media on paper, 90X125cm) This will probably be the last major piece of work I finish in 2016. The drawing attempts to look at the debased spirit of our times. If I were to give such a time a name I’d called it The Zeitgeist of Disbelief.

(2016, A3, mixed media on paper)

I don’t know when you could say such a time began (maybe at some point during the past decade or even earlier?), but I sense we are overdue some grieving time. And that’s because our civilisation (specifically our faith in a capitalist model – one based on exponential growth – to bring well-being and prosperity)Continue reading “A Grief That’s Been Gagged and Buried (2016)”

YOUR Freedom (95X125cm, mixed media on paper, 2016) ‘YOUR Freedom’ is my latest work, and will feature in the Wakefield Redshed part of the group show Fighting For Crumbs (Art in The Shadow of Neoliberal Britain). Fighting For Crumbs (Art in the Shadow of Neoliberal Britain) is a group of artists from Yorkshire working amidstContinue reading “YOUR Freedom (2016)”