Category: Text/Image

The grey pavement is shot with spits and spills and scarred by gum and guano.  On each side, buildings rise up; one side a concrete shopping centre and the other a row of three-story mismatched old shops, takeaways and beauty bars; busy by day, empty by night.  There is a row of ash trees, their… Continue reading The Street

These quilt collages were designed to express my frustration with the continuing unequal distribution of wealth in the UK. How the widening gap between the poor and the wealthy alienates and is causing a host of social problems, which effect us all. Ironically, it is fermenting an attitude of anarchic apathy in the workforce, which… Continue reading Greed

Polly switched on the Six O’clock News and a bombardment of headline stories followed, their bare, salient details stretched out for a few sentences, then on to the next: Escalation of violence in the Middle East as thousands killed… Heavy fighting as Russians gain territory in Ukraine… 14 year old boy stabbed by schoolmates…  27… Continue reading Headlines

These are experiments with text collage, exhibited in 2023. They play with the idea of text as a visual aesthetic object as well as a means of communication. The meaning remains unclear to what the assertion or statement refers, so the viewer / reader attaches her / his own interpretation to it. These, for me,… Continue reading Assertions

This is an amalgamation of the grid structure, which represents the institutional restraints that exist within a culture and the ‘natural’ act of asemic writing, full of physicality and emotional expression. Like graffiti, it emulates the word of ‘the street’ versus the word of ‘the establishment’: finance, business, the Law, etc A hierarchy of structure… Continue reading Writing on the Wall

Distorted view of a skyscraper reflecting the real material world in its windows.

A modern cityscape of glass windows mirroring the impregnable power of medieval castles.

The way we communicate and share information determines the way we think, interact and organise our lives, but this is not a static, fixed process.  The means by which we communicate has changed over the centuries as a result of technological advances.  But if the effects of our modern age are rooted in changes in… Continue reading The 2nd Dark Age