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A vast record of time at your feet (Degree Show)

This body of work uses drawing and print techniques to merge/alter images from my family archive, specimens from the natural history museum online records and my own photographs. The resulting pieces resemble funerary monuments, celestial bodies and fictional artifacts, woven together as if part of the same narrative.

The making process has been an exercise in relating personal perceptions of absence to the broader ecosystem of loss that exists in the world, highlighting that nothing can ever truly disappear without leaving some trace behind.

 

'Absence'

Pencil, gesso and wood carving on flexi-ply 320 x 135 cm

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'Michael reaches out for something he can't see'

Pencil and gesso on plywood, engraved dry-point etching plate 14.8 x 21 cm

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'Shades'

Engraved dry-point etching plate over Fabriano oil painting paper 10.5 x 14.8 cm

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'Fossils'

Hand bound book of photo lithographs A5