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'Half Life: Five by Five (Parts 1&2 and Part 3)' 2022 (polyptych; collage, tissue and gold ink on cotton duck on recycled stretchers,
100 x 60cm and 100 x 70cm) Parts 1&2 exhibited at Eastside Projects Summer Camp, Birmingham October 2022; Parts 1&2 and 3 exhibited at Ort Gallery, Birmingham December 2022
There are currently 5 parts to this polyptych, measuring 100 x 400cm. They can be hung close together or any distance apart. There might be more to come. It could go on forever...
100 x 60cm and 100 x 70cm) Parts 1&2 exhibited at Eastside Projects Summer Camp, Birmingham October 2022; Parts 1&2 and 3 exhibited at Ort Gallery, Birmingham December 2022
There are currently 5 parts to this polyptych, measuring 100 x 400cm. They can be hung close together or any distance apart. There might be more to come. It could go on forever...
'Half Life: All the Meds' 2022 (collage, tissue and gold ink on rescued canvas, 76 x 152cm)
This is me trying to find a point in the day or in the week when I am optimally medicated.
This is me trying to find a point in the day or in the week when I am optimally medicated.
'Half Life: Amitriptyline' 2022 (diptych, collage, mulberry paper and gold ink on rescued canvas, each panel 102 x 76cm)
This was the first work I made using my own notation system for the half-life of the medications I have to take every day. In this work I used the data from amitriptyline, which has a half life of 25 hours.
This was the first work I made using my own notation system for the half-life of the medications I have to take every day. In this work I used the data from amitriptyline, which has a half life of 25 hours.
'Keppra Diaries II' 2021 Collage, tissue and gold ink on canvas, overall size 82h x 61w cm (each panel 20 x 20 cm)
Exhibited in West Midlands Open 2022, New Art Gallery Walsall
This is a companion piece to the work below, with obscured and revealed words about my experience of epilepsy and its treatment following a late diagnosis after a major episode in 2108. The medication keeps it under control unless I'm more than usually stressed. The gold ink keeps everything together, like kintsugi.
Exhibited in West Midlands Open 2022, New Art Gallery Walsall
This is a companion piece to the work below, with obscured and revealed words about my experience of epilepsy and its treatment following a late diagnosis after a major episode in 2108. The medication keeps it under control unless I'm more than usually stressed. The gold ink keeps everything together, like kintsugi.
'Keppra Diaries I (Into the Blue)' 2021 Collage, tissue and gold ink on canvas, overall size 61h x 82w cm (each panel 20 x 20 cm)
Exhibited in Ort Gallery Members show, Birmingham 2021
This was originally made as three sets of four small canvases, but I mounted them together to make them easier to install. I liked the effect so used it again for the companion piece (above). The small pieces were made at home and then assembled in my studio - I am vulnerable to Covid so the pandemic meant finding new ways of working. This work is about trying to process a later life epilepsy diagnosis - a condition I have had from childhood, but which was only formally diagnosed in my fifties. I have written diary entries about my experience over patient information leaflets for Keppra, then calmed everything down and unified the surface with blue tissue and gold ink.
Exhibited in Ort Gallery Members show, Birmingham 2021
This was originally made as three sets of four small canvases, but I mounted them together to make them easier to install. I liked the effect so used it again for the companion piece (above). The small pieces were made at home and then assembled in my studio - I am vulnerable to Covid so the pandemic meant finding new ways of working. This work is about trying to process a later life epilepsy diagnosis - a condition I have had from childhood, but which was only formally diagnosed in my fifties. I have written diary entries about my experience over patient information leaflets for Keppra, then calmed everything down and unified the surface with blue tissue and gold ink.