Prosthesis

Prosthesis

Prosthesis 2020   Oil colour over cast wax with bronze hairs and found material 30cmW x 10cmH x 7cmD This sketch work investigates the affect when a material-time stimuli (wood-boring insects)strongly associated with one type of material, wood, migrates over to...
1’/358″ (One Foot, 358 seconds)

1’/358″ (One Foot, 358 seconds)

1’/ 356”(One Foot, 356 seconds)   Slug mucus on found material over oak base 72cmWx 30cmH x 3cmD The work recalls a work made by Robert Rauschenberg in 1953 where a car tyre dipped in black household paint was driven over 20 leaves of Letter size paper glued...
Forge a Past to Forge Ahead

Forge a Past to Forge Ahead

Forge a Past and Forge a Future, 23cmWx28cmHx10cmD Pip-  stone and mulberry inks on 17thC paper Paul Tuppeny 2020   A historic drawing appears to show a figure resembling Leonardo’s Vitruvian man generating the geometry of a flag. The work discusses the political...
Time Stick: The Biography of a Branch

Time Stick: The Biography of a Branch

Time Stick: The Biography of a Branch 70cmWx8cmHx8cmD Found material, acrylic case A branch taken from a quince bush is reconfigured to reflect growth along a time axis; as the branch grows from a shoot (far left) it thickens, flowers, fruits, ages, dies and decays...
the Prescient Pavement

the Prescient Pavement

The Prescient Pavement 2019 210cmW x 7cmH x180cmD Found material and concrete A path of concrete paving slabs is built with recesses ready to receive the leaves that are to later fall upon...