Ridicule (Is Nothing To Be Scared Of) 2005

In my work the visual narrative is a line of enquiry which doesn't necessarily have a happy ending or neat conclusion. Images lead images that twist and curl around each other to form circular paths of revelation. These fictions trope on historical paintings and spoken stories, such as those told by my mother to create a grand topography of ‘truthful’ realities.


Illusory and remembered local English characters and places merge into one nostalgic landscape that comments on Romanticism; the power of its political exploitation. The resultant pictorial distortions question an art historical foundation upon which contemporary experience lies.

Title of Works:


Regina Res Publica (Gina), 2004 Oil on canvas,
167.6cm x 224.8cm


Ridicule (Is Nothing To Be Scared Of)(detail) 2005
Oil on canvas, 40.6cm x 35.6cm


Initiation (detail) 2005
Charcoal on paper,100cm x 76cm

Initiation, 2005 (detail)

New Jerusalem, 2004
Oil on canvas, 101.6cm x 152.4cm


Apotropaic ("Don't You Fucking Mess With Me" Said Little Red Riding Hood"),(detail)2005 Charcoal on Paper 100cm x 340cm


Unrolled Landscape (Nights at Fairy Hill),(Detail) 2006 Charcoal, paper, cardboard, tracing paper,candles and wooden stools
(drawing 450cm 300cm approx; boxes: 40cm x50cm & 35cm x 40cm approx)