POOL OF TEARS

driftwood tree with droplet shapes and residue strands formed from one mile of silk thread

Exhibited in Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery, October/November 2013 for the “Open West 2013”

Pages and prints for my upcoming book “Lachrymose: pool of tears”. This was inspired initially by the idea of frozen sea and suspended water droplets seeming like frozen tears. Alice in Wonderland’s pool of tears made me think of preposterous conditions for swimming, and of tear drops as relics.

The pages are screen printed onto old magazine paper( L’Oeil) and carbon paper: some are printed over ink drawings.

BLOOMING BRISTOL AND OTHER SURREAL SEVERN STORIES

The Bristol Broadsheet was made in honour of exhibiting at BABE at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol, in April 2015. It is a 12 page newspaper containing invented narratives about incidents around the Arnolfini Gallery (“Garlanded Gallery”), the Clifton suspension bridge (“Blossoming Bridge”), and the Cabot Tower (“Cabot Conundrum”).It also contains an article on the discovery of antique texts documenting supposed maritime marvels, “The Severn Siren”, and a”True Story of a Monstrous Fish”. There is also an agony aunt page and an advert heralding the visit to Bristol of Mystic Sid….. Copies are still available if you would like to read more about “Blooming Bristol!”