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This painting was originally painted by Richard Daad between 1855 and 1864 when he was in the Bethlem Royal Hospital for murdering his father. Shakespeare’s Oberon and Titania appear in the picture …
In 1888, Renoir visited Guernsey and painted several versions of my favourite childhood bay; Moulin Huet. In a letter to Watteau, Renoir describes Guernsey as a ” Kind of Paradise”. …
“Sur La Plage” Upstairs at the Clerks House, Shoreditch, London. Painted Limpit Shells. An unknown number of limpit shells were collected from the beach and individually painted using an amateur …
The Cliffs, Guernsey. Photographic Print 1999. This charts the romantic search for a mythical plant which was purported to have grown up to 20ft high in Guernsey. Having thought I …
“I Spun a Web” Solo Show, Curtain Road Arts, London. Silver thread, fancy cakes and mixed media.1996. A giant web has been woven in the gallery to create a drawing …
Dusseldorf Academy, Germany. Mixed Media. 1996. A plastic couple have been stuck to a blank canvas looking into the void. Sparklers have been placed along the top and are lit …
Solo Show, Laden 33, Dusseldorf, Germany. Mixed Media. 1995. The gallery was a former shop so I used pink light to lure viewers into the space. Hanging in the window …
Group Show with the Uecker Class, Phillip Nicolai Church, Recklinhausen, Germany. Mixed Media. 1995 We were invited to make a show in Recklinghausen. I chose the bell tower of the …
Group Show, Kunstraum, Dusseldorf. Graphite powder drawing and framed photograph. 1995. This is a graphite wall drawing based on a map of the night sky at the time when I …
“Soon” Group Show, Underwood St.Gallery and Het Consortium, Amsterdam, Curated by Dermot O’Brien. I have dyed archival quality tissue paper with lightfast pigment and then scrunched it up and bound …
Group Show, The Tannery, London.1994 I have plastered a room as if icing a cake and painted it with magnolia paint. Using my mouth as a painting tool, I have …
Poppies, Greece, Photographic print.1999 In Greece I found a field of poppies to lay down in. Referencing, rather obviously, “The Wizard of Oz”, I wanted to literally be asphyxiated by …
Dusseldorf Academy, 1995. This was an installation with occasional performances which took place over a week as a response to the German festival of Carnival. It was also influenced by …
Photographic print, 2002, La Gomera, Spain. Channeling an Elf in an ancient laurel forest on the island of La Gomera.
Photographic Print, Guernsey, 1999. Fascinated by the garden sculpture of Guernsey, I inserted myself into this garden scene in order to animate the stone fox who appeared stoned.
Performance and Film, Guernsey, 1998 Film shown at the Big Chill, 1998, in an exhibition curated by Alice Sharp. “Natural High”, is a film of a private performance in a …
