Writing comes out of tension, tension between what’s inside and what’s outside.
Rachel Cusk, Outline
My father’s son
Oil, canvas, 70cm x 70cm
2024
The art college trip when we saw Joe Strummer and Pete Burns on the golden streets of London
Pencil, spray paint, card
84cm x 59cm
2023
Selected for
The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024
October 2024 - July 2025
Self-portrait (masking tape as a death mask)
Oil, canvas, 100cm x 100cm
2024
The changes that have taken place are all the wrong ones, I think you know
Spray paint, transparent spray paint, canvas
101cm x 101cm
2022
Untitled
Spray paint, transparent spray paint, canvas
101cm x 101cm
2022
Untitled
Spray paint, dibond aluminium panels
50cm x 150cm
2022
Work pass 1988
Spray paint, transparent spray paint, canvas board
60cm x 60cm
2022
Detail
The release of putting off who and where we’ve come from, to believe in nothing, to be nothing
Transparent spray paint, canvas
101cm x 101cm
2022
Untitled
Transparent spray paint, canvas
101cm x 101cm
2022
Untitled
Transparent spray paint, canvas
101cm x 101cm
2022
If you know me then it’s only because you know yourself
Transparent spray paint, canvas
101cm x 101cm
2022
The capacity of everything to resemble something else
Transparent spray paint, canvas
101cm x 101cm
2021
Everyone lost something; many lost everything
Spray paint, canvas
152cm x 122cm
2021
We can communicate only what we are not
Transparent spray paint, canvas
101cm x 101cm
2021
What do we do now, now that we are happy?
Transparent spray paint, canvas
101cm x 101cm
2021
He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive
Transparent spray paint, canvas
101cm x 101cm
2021
And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth
Spray paint, transparent spray paint, canvas
101cm x 101cm
2021
I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean
Transparent spray paint, canvas
101cm x 101cm
2020
Whatever our souls are made of
Transparent spray paint, canvas
101cm x 101cm
2020
Her look said: no one here is like us
Spray paint, canvas
50cm x 101cm
2020
When we met there were no questions (After Agnès Varda)
Spray paint, canvas
50cm x 101cm
2020
And she says, what are you thinking?
Spray paint, canvas
101cm x 101cm
2020
To restore silence is the role of objects
Spray paint, canvas
101cm x 101cm
2020
Untitled (1 & 2)
Spray paint, canvas
100 cm x 100cm x 4cm each
2020
Untitled
Spray-painted washers on aluminium panel
60cm x 60cm
2020
Detail
Untitled
Spray-painted washers on aluminium panel
60cm x 60cm
2020
Detail
Self portrait, washers
Acrylic, washers, canvas
2020
Detail
Between the boxes reflections - the ghosts of colours on the wall - become an extension of the artwork. The imagined internal pattern is as real, though in a different form, as the physical aspect of the paint and board.
Untitled
Spray paint on cradled wooden panel
645mm x 645mm x 4cm
2020
If not now, when
Spray paint on cradled wooden panel
645mm x 645mm x 4cm
2020
