The Black Flag (band) logo recreated by pinning four black bin-liners to the wall. Ideally, those bin-liners will have been bought from a hardware store in Hermosa Beach, California (where the band originates from).
exhibition
Sab-bed Bloody Sab-bed /
A full-scale marble rendering of the bed from the front cover of Black Sabbath’s ‘Sabbath Bloody Sabbath’ album cover.
Spike /
A public sculpture which is a massive rendering of those plastic bird spikes that people put on window ledges and security cameras to prevent birds from landing. The scale of this sculpture will mean it is the perfect size for birds to use it as a perch.
Libraries Gave Us Power /
A collaborative photographic project documenting the, over-800, libraries that have closed in the UK since 2010 (under this Tory government). I will publish a list of the libraries and their, defunct, addresses, with an invitation for anyone/everyone to photograph the buildings or sites and share them with me as part of the project, as a fully credited collaborator. These images could be a series of zines, a book, a video, an exhibition, or all of them.
Collaborative Print Portofolios /
A series of portfolios made up of an identical selection of my prints from across the years. These will be shared with a series of collaborators, who will add to the prints in their own unique way - me + 1 other artist per portfolio. A kind-of Basquiat/Warhol scenario. The portfolios will then be offered for sale as full collaborations.
Four Branches /
A series of medium-format photographs of sites, now, from The Four Branches of the Mabinogion (Welsh Folklore).
Welcome to Wherever This Is... /
An American-style town “Welcome to…” sign, set out in a random landscape, that says…
“Welcome to wherever this is…”
Architectural Biography /
This could exist as a zine or a more formal publication and would consist of a series of plan drawings of everywhere I’ve ever lived, from memory.
Alongside those drawings would be written a key memory from my time living there.
Desert Head /
A single-channel video of a head poking out of the sand in a desert landscape, the eyes are closed, framed in such a way as we can’t tell if it’s someone buried up to their neck or whether it’s a decapitated head.
The eyes dart open and we hear the head’s internal monologue, worrying over trivial and mundane aspects of everyday life - “Did I leave the gas on?!…”
At the end of the monologue the eyes close again.
My ideal ‘head’ would be the actor Paul Putner.
Marble Foot /
A marble sculpture of one of my feet, attached to a marble base - as if a fragment from a larger sculpture.
Include this work in every exhibition/project/installation I ever have, with an invitation for visitors to touch the foot to bring them good luck.
Over time this repetitive action will begin to polish and wear-away the marble, as we see with sculptures around the world purported to contain good luck.
Temporary Tattoos /
Temporary (water-applied) tattoo sheets as a curatorial project.
Invite a range of artists to come up with a temporary tattoo design and have them produced, collectively, on a single sheet of tattoos.
A group exhibition on a single sheet.
Origami Extreme /
Take a sheet of any size screw-up-able material and screw it up into a ball.
Take a photo.
Flatten it out again and trace over every fold and crease line with a fine-liner pen.
The reference photo and the lines on the piece of paper then exist as some sort of extreme (impossible?) origami proposition.
Augmented Gubb /
Develop an augmented reality app that means I could drop a public artwork into anywhere in the world and, so long as someone has the app on their phone, they can view the artwork.
The possibilities are, literally, endless.
Titles as T-shirts /
The titles of my solo shows re-worked as illsutrated heavy metal t-shirts in collaboration with different artist-illustrators I like i.e.
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
How Should I Live? (Maybe that’s not the question)
My Empire of Dirt
Revelations: The Poison of Free Thought Prt.II
History is Written by the Winners
Third from the Sun
The Last Judgement
First Phones... /
A list of the moment a mobile phone first appears in popular TV programmes from the 90s and 00s i.e.
The Sopranos - S1 E07
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia - S4 E08
First Words... /
A list of the words spoken by the first woman to speak in any film, and the time at which these words are spoken in the film. (This could be broken into decades as a series of mini-projects).
Possibly written/printed as a list.
Possibly compiled into a zine.
Wal Goch /
A wall made entirely from old house-bricks found in the River Taff.
Dreamytime Escorts /
A written agreement/contract to visit someone in their dreams and take them on an adventure.
Immigrants t-shirt /
A t-shirt boldly stating ‘IMMIGRANTS’ on the front of it, with illustrations of key/essential plants and vegetables now grown/growing in the UK that were imported from elsewhere.
Googie Signs /
A series of Googie-style signs designed for places/businesses that don’t exist (but sound like they might). Possibly then rendered in Blender or other-such 3D software.
“Dinosaur World”
“Jimmy’s Dogs and Valet”
“World of Chicks”
“Bowsher’s Automotive”