Play, 2010
Installation for MOCA London, UK
Play is made from VHS videotape taken from used gay pornographic video films. The mass of tape forms a wall or curtain that bisects the gallery. Individual lengths sometimes show evidence of stretching from excessive use of the pause, rewind, forward and play buttons. Exposing the videotape in this manner renders it useless and there is no sign of its content. However the shiny black surface reflects whatever is in front of it. It is a memorial to past technology, and to the pasts of those who watched it and those who made it. Visitors are invited to walk through the tape.
Go-Go, 2009
Installation for m2 Gallery, London, UK
Go-Go features two solar powered disco balls. The piece operates on continuous 24-hour cycles. As day follows night, solar panels charge batteries that illuminate disco balls that spin when the sun sets. The morning after the night before the balls hang still, the batteries re-charging for the next evening’s activity. Go-Go was conceived in response to the specific location of the gallery.
untitled, 2009
Installation for Quay House, London, UK
Painted sculptures with joined recycled paper urinals were placed in the interior of Quay House. The installation was part of the London Open House 2009 architecture weekend.
Brief Encounter, 2008
Installation for Nordisk Kunst Plattform, Brusand, Norway
Brief Encounter features two model locomotives continuously running around circular tracks. Nordisk Kunst Plattform is an artist’s project space in a former train station. Brief Encounter was conceived especially for the space, combining site specificity with personal content. The show also included embroidered handkerchiefs.
Letter to John, 2008
Insert for Golden Rain
(Michael Petry project for On The Edge, Stavanger 2008)
Handwritten text on thermal paper ribbon sealed into one of 100 golden glass vessels for Michael Petry’s Golden Rain installation in Eigrøya Lighthouse, Egersund, Norway.
Janus, 2008
Site specific installation at 55 Leroy Street, London SE1
Visitors are invited to spy into the rooms above and below the exhibition. The room above is the office of the architects who are redeveloping the entire building. In the room below is junk left by various former tenants and businesses who have occupied the building.
Bed (for Quay House, m2 Gallery), 2009
Bed (for Crystal Palace), 2007
Live work, chalk drawing
The drawing has the same dimensions as the artist’s bed and is made at the same compass orientation. The drawing was made over four hours and then left. The drawing was erased by the weather and people walking over it.
Untitled (Hidden Glory), 2006
Installation with spy hole in private garden shed
Visitors are invited to spy into the interior of a garden shed. Inside the shed are two domestic light bulbs.
