Foxes & Cherries
Foxes and Cherries in Electric Avenue, Brixton, London.
figure, plymouth hospital
deer
Cast iron Horse bench, Hebden Bridge.
HULL, WORLD IN A CONTAINER
I created `World in a Container’ for Hull city festival 1992. Inside a shipping container I constructed scenes that were viewed through peep holes in the sides. The container travelled around to different sites in the city and was plugged into the electricity supply to eliminate the scenes inside. Constructed out of plastics, tin plate and found objects and using mirrors to create reflections enlarging the feeling of space inside they depicted tableaux’s about environments, of underwater plastic pollution, factories and power stations
world in a container-fish scene-plastic bottles,mirrors,tin,lighting 1992
MANCHESTER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
The wall paintings for Manchester Children’s Hospital Cleft Palate Department were produced to enhance the wellbeing of patients and aid the speech therapy teaching with illustrative depictions of sounds and words. Working closely with staff and patients I developed the works that were then printed on to wall vinyl for corridors, waiting rooms and dentist areas.
MARSEILLES, FRANCE
Fridge La menagerie Mecanique
'fridge' installation was commissioned by the theatre company Lieux Publics in Marseilles France as part of a theatre production that was then toured to several countries .Working with a group of artists in Marseilles we created a number of mechanised fridges(old fridges collected from scrap yards)to be part of an invented story. On the tour these fridges were interictal to the theatre production unlike props they were closely observed by people as the story unfolded.
Details from fridge – Fridge La Mengerie Mecauique Lieux publics, Marseille, France.
Fridge La Mengerie, Mecauique Lieux publics, Marseille, France
SHEFFIELD, MEADOW HALL
The Ride of Life
In the early 1990's Meadow Hall shopping centre was built in Sheffield on the old steel works and the company Cabarete mechanical theatre was commissioned to create an attraction for visitors. A number of automata makers were commissioned to create a series of scenes that people would ride through on a mechanized sofa. Together with the artist Andy Hazel we made this café with mechanized tea drinkers, digesting dog, wobbling tea urn and tea pouring, street traffic scene, fly zapper, till checkout ringing up purchases and many other automated elements that all came to life when the sofa passed by carrying passengers. The whole project unfortunately wasn't installed in the building because the owners changed their minds and the whole ride was never seen. Various pieces of the project were shown individually elsewhere. Our Café was shown in Preston museum and apparently as all the scenes of 'The Ride of Life' was stored in a Rochdale warehouse we were told that one of the life size figures made its way to be standing in the council offices.
Bronze Rabbits
Bronze Otter
Bronze Foxes
SWINDON PRIMARY SCHOOL
Moorhens
Early on in the development of the new school buildings I was commissioned to produce some sculptures for the entrance to the school. The school is situated near a stream and having seen moorhens on my first site visit I choose to create a little narrative of a series of bronze moorhens and chicks for the walls and benches, and one water vole - as I had been told - while preparing the ground for the buildings they had to relocate the water voles but one vole just kept coming back.
