Installations

The following are just two of many complete installations, they were finished in 2006 in England.

The Slurry Tower:

The Slurry Tower installation was constructed within a new, unused slurry tower in central England. The vast space and depths of this tower made it an ideal experimentation space. Conceptually this work plays upon the ideas of waste and refuse. The tower is created to hold vast amounts of slurry, liquid excrement, and to use it as an art space inverts the normal hiarchy of art, whereby it is hallowed in city galleries. The knowledge that everything in the tower is limited by time, just a week after the installation was finished the slurry tower was sealed and used, is present in this work. The use of the chid's chair, umbrella and toys in juxtaposition to the construction gear and scaffolding also plays on the idea of time. The child is contrasted with the adult, the naive with the skilled artisan, the cleanliness with the future filth.

The Nest:

Forming the backdrop to the artist's studio The Nest was not only an installation but an ongoing artistic endevour. Primarily focussing on the need for privacy and integrity the work comprises many smaller works in various media. The Nest is a complicated exploration of many themes and emotions. The cardboard box and the nest itself both functioned as artist spaces, many works were created in their darkness and security. The elevation of the nest to a work in its own right is an expression of freedom. However, the presence of the ladder and the box present a new dimention, despite the casting off of the nest like security space, a new, smaller and more constrictive space is created in the box and the ladder, unusable as it is, represents the longing to return to the initial security of the Nest environment.