Southbank Bristol Arts

‘The Very Last Dodo’
Installation; DVD, photo, text, mixed media

A rough-shod hide containing field notes, documentation of sightings and rare footage of the very last dodo.

The dodo welcomed outsiders with open wings during the 16th century only to find itself extinct in a very short time. Astonishingly one bird has survived. Recorded on film, this is a tragic-comic story of hopeless optimism in the face of adversity.

Filmed on a windy January on Brean Sands the DVD presents an imagined internal monologue and behaviours of the last surviving member of a species.

‘The Very Last Dodo pt 2’
Performance

The audience watch from within make-shift hides (achieved in one past instance with portable cardboard shields with viewing slits and in another through a gap in the wall of a wooden hide structure). The last surviving dodo emerges from its outside habitat to perform an extraordinary mating dance, unaware of the cluster of observers close by. This site-responsive performance plays with the relationship between the inside and the outside and of hiding and revealing oneself and is performed alongside ‘The Very Last Dodo’ installation.

‘Harajuku’
Mixed Media on Canvas
£455

‘The Looming Monster’
Mixed Media on Canvas
£1,420

‘After Miller’
Monoprint
£120

The rugged outdoors and the satisfaction of working the land is the inspiration for this image. Millet’s iconic images of peasants working the soil are paid homage to in this contemporary image of a man digging. The burnt sienna tones allude to a bygone era where physical work was an everyday occurrence.

‘C1TY L1F3’
Mixed Media on Wood
£250

Architecture in Bristol has played an important role within my work over the last few years. With many of the striking structures that I come across, I try to recreate their impressive features through painting.

‘C1TY L1F3’ is a visual representation of an old Bristol railway bridge that is infused with my own abstract interpretation of how I feel about it. The final result being a personal depiction of how I perceive the bridge both visually and emotionally.

‘Come in, the water’s lovely’
Photographic Print
£175

‘Twilight’
Digital Art Print
£220

Twilight in Mevagissey Harbour, Cornwall reveals the magic of the setting sun over the rippling waves of the sea. The fishing boats waiting for the tide to turn and the new day to begin.

‘Inside Looking Out’
Machine embroidery on fabric
£180

The view from my bedroom window; my first and last view of the outside each day. I wanted to draw the outside in a medium more commonly associated with the inside (and it gave me an excuse to try out my newly fixed sewing machine).

‘Outside Looking In’
Machine embroidery on fabric
£60

My bedroom from the outside looking in. A view normally only seen by window cleaners or prospective burglars.