Introduction
Trained as a painter at Chelsea, I now work with drawing, collage, constructions and photography. The work is informed by a personal wide ranging eclectic knowledge of art history which crosses all times, civilisations and both high and low cultures, alongside this is a great love of and familiarity with museums from national collections to small local and specific collections. Collages reference to figures in spaces, both intimate and distant, using my own photography, found images and painting, often with reference to an artifact, painting or story found in a museum.
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New work STILL LIVES STILL LIFE
Stealing glimpses into other people’s front rooms, peeping into their intimate spaces, straining to see personal objects more clearly. By then we have walked past. These images then fuse with other memories, become blurred, vague recollections, impressions, softened by time.
In the later part of her life my 102-year-old mother told stories of houses she had visited as a child, her memory confusing them with places she had recently been. She created a new narrative where the edges between imagination and authenticity became blurred. ‘Still Lives Still Life’ brings together these two elements of experience. All these images originate in dolls houses displayed from the Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood . Through photography the miniatures of everyday objects transform into pictorial still lives.
Biography
Born in the UK 1944, moved to Ramsgate Kent in 2000, where I now live and work. Trained in Fine Art, Chelsea School of Art 1962 to 1967. Solo Exhibitions include Viking Gallery 2009, Judd Street Gallery 1989 and 1988. Amongst recent exhibitions my work has been shown in ‘Art Futures’ the Contemporary Art Society, ‘Pattern Crazy’ the Crafts Council and ‘Turner Contemporary open 2009’ the Turner Contemporary, photographs are held in the Ernst and Young collection One More Place and illustrations commissioned by Sotheby’s Art At Auction.
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Image Gallery
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Title: Just arrived
Dimensions: H52 x W38 cm
Media: Giclee photographic print
Description: No 6 in a series of work STILL LIVES STILL LIFE which originate in V&A Museum of Childhood. Exhibited Viking Gallery 2009 Edition of 10
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Title: The yellow lampshade
Dimensions: H52 x W38 cm
Media: Giclee photographic print
Description: No 2 in a series of work STILL LIVES STILL LIFE which originate in V&A Museum of Childhood. Exhibited Turner Contemporary Open 2009 Edition of 10
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Title: The silver pair
Dimensions: H52 x W38 cm
Media: Giclee photographic print
Description: No 8 in a series of work STILL LIVES STILL LIFE which originate in V&A Museum of Childhood. Exhibited in Turner Contemporary Open 2009 Edition of 10
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Title: The white washed elephant
Dimensions: H44 x W85.5 cm
Media: collage - mixed media, paper,photography and ,acrylic
Description: From a series of collages A STITCH IN TIME
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Title: Its arrived
Dimensions: L8 x 5 in
Media: c type photographic print
Description: from a series of photographs of RAMSGATE 2003 to 2008