Face Value: portraits from Wrenn School Northants and Charterhouse, Surrey 2002 - 2004
Dayne Year 8 : Face Value series
oil on canvas, 2003
Exhibited at the BP Portrait Awards, NPG, and Future Face, Science museum, London 2004
Installation view at the Science museum 2004 Watts Gallery 2008 .
Wrenn Portrait : Face Value series
oil on canvas, 2003
Dan : Face Value series
oil on canvas, 2004
Head Boy/Girl and addition from Wrenn
oil on board, 2005
Wrenn pupil Year 8 : Face Value series
oil on canvas, 2003
Charterhouse pupil yr 12 Face Value
oil on board, 2005
Workshop at Wrenn school, Northants.
Exhibition Face Value at Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery 2002.
Head Boy Head Girl series, Charterhouse 2005 - 2019
Head boy Head girl Woking Lightbox 2019
Head Boy Head Girl 2015
oil on canvas 120 x 100
Head Boy Head Girl 2018
oil on linen 60 x 120cm
Head Boy/Girl 2018
oil on linen 100 x 80cm
Private and State School Spaces
Wrenn Portrait - at the desk
watercolour, acrylic,graphite on paper, 2002
Wrenn corridor
oil on canvas 150 x 100cm, 2004
Charterhouse Corridor / Cloisters
oil on canvas 150 x 100cm, 2005
Charterhouse suspended Big Ground
oil on canvas 150 x 100cm, 2006
Charterhouse Cloisters: assembly
oil on canvas 150 x 100cm, 2016
Early Family Portraits 1999 - 2002
Joe Boy
oil on MDF, 1999
exhibited at the BP Portrait Awards, NPG
Father/Son
oil on MDF, 2001
exhibited at the BP Portrait Awards, NPG
Modern Suburban Family portrait after Jan Van Eyck 'Arnolfini Marriage'
oil on canvas, 2000
150 x 110cm
Reanimation 2 charcoal on paper
Animation developed from archival photos of school pupils at Winchester College. An attempt to reanimate old images creates new ghostly cartoonish identities to the school boys.
Reanimation 1 charcoal on paper
Animation developed from archival photos of school pupils at Charterhouse. An attempt to reanimate old images creates new ghostly cartoonish identities to the school boys. A score by old boy Vaughn Williams is added for melodrama
Domestic/ Movie Doodles 1998 - 2002
"My work tracks domestic activities such as watching movies, listening to music and interacting with my family. Many thousands of drawings were produced responding to ever changing ideas, thoughts and scenes. The spontaneous story boards are produced as if directing my own imagined movie, with the spectator being invited to decipher narratives within. The linear time-based act of viewing a movie, listening to music or having a conversation is transformed into a topographical trace. Although the doodles appear to be random I impose restraints on size, timescale and tools working within a modernist grid. In the past I referred to modernism, abstraction and colour field painting but increasing I am freeing up and using automatism in a more figurative way to explore portraiture."
Exhibitions included: Domestic Doodles Sackville Gallery London , Drawings on Time Modern Art Oxford 2000, Channel Surfing Alsager Gallery Manchester and Kings Lynn Art Centre.
Domestic Doodles detail
pen and wash on paper, 1998
Movie Doodles: Transfiguration (horror)
each panel made in real time to movie duration
Graphite on canvas
50 x 50cm x 5
Movie Doodles: Boogie nights 2 hours 32 mins
oil on canvas made whiles watching film
50 x 50cm x 5
Domestic doodles 24 hours
oil on canvas, 2000
100 x 100cm
Movie Doodles exhibition view
oil on canvas
Domestic doodles detail
Leaving Las Vegas 1 hour 52 mins
oil on canvas, video and alchohol.
100 x 80cm, 2001
Movie Doodles: American Beauty x 2
oil on canvas, 2001
120 x 120cm
Breakfast at Tiffanies
Silver rings, drawings from silver surface filmed in real time whiles watching Breakfast at Tiffanies. 1 hour 55 mins
Sackville Gallery WI London 1998
Rings: Unity Video 4 mins 2007-2009
dimensions variable
Exhibited at the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2007 and 53rd Venice Biennale with Celeste Prize 2009
Rings reflects a refinement of my on going experimentation in automatic drawings produced by setting parameters of time, scale, format and drawing tools. The video records the action of my hand attempting to make a drawing, with the silver rings influencing movement and mark-making. The resulting silver deposits left on the surface trace my hands movement. The cropped format and recording in real time turn the whole action into the art object: the screen becomes the support and containing frame. As much as referencing Modernism's concerns with the refinement of form and content, I am just as interested in the references to marital rings, play and the creationist myth of god's hand creating the word - with his knuckles! Rings designed by Ruth Rignall (RCA)