Recent feather-based works deal with collective and individual identity: lost feathers as traces of the journey made and remnants left behind. The Feather Crown series of works take inspiration from the American tradition of the 1900’s, […]
Lost and Found
Sculptural Glass
This on-going series of works deal with the concept of collective and individual identity through the everyday form of a purse: a belonging which is often lost, stolen or mislaid, full of sentimental value and charged with personal memories. I began to make this work during a three-month long artist’s residency […]
The Art of Deception
Sculptural Glass
Ever since people have been able to speak, they have recounted myths to one another. We have an apparent need for myths: a need to ‘believe’ which […]
The Inevitability of Loss 2004
Portfolio, Sculptural Glass
An installation created for the Blind Faith exhibition in Bruges. It comprises three hanging cast-glass panels bearing wall paper imagery and the fading words ‘longing’ and ‘desire’ […]
Human Shield I, II, & III 2006
Portfolio, Sculptural Glass
Human Shield I, II & III form part of a series of works in the shape of a female breast plate and incorporate motifs and images which explore the recurrent themes and concerns in my work: history and its associations, memory, the fleeting and transitory. […]
Et cetera per terras
Portfolio, Sculptural Glass
An installation exhibited at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona as part of the BAC! IV – Barcelona’s Fourth Contemporary Art Festival and at Espai Vidre, a private gallery. The installation is an imaginary bedroom, […]
For the dream nobody sees but you…
Portfolio, Sculptural Glass
The installation For the dream nobody sees but you deals with the transmission of images and the transformation of light via glass. The projected images are from my own personal library – places I have visited, dreamt about and sometimes longed for, combined with stills from The Singing, Ringing Tree – a tale I remember vividly from my childhood. […]
Courage 2006
Portfolio, Sculptural Glass
Courage was created especially for the 10th anniversary of the MAVA (Museum of Art in Glass, Madrid) and complements the first series of Human Shields. […]
The Human Presence in the Absence of a Figure
Portfolio, Sculptural Glass
The breastplate series ‘The Human Presence in the Absence of a Figure’ was created during an artist’s residency in northern France and takes inspiration from an abandoned zinc architectural detail emblematic of the area together with […]