Installation testing in the studio. 2025
Sarcasm, Aspirations & Superstitions
A ginormous photographic essay that speaks to British sensibilities, using found images sourced in books, magazines, instruction manuals, industry journals, newspapers and archives. These images sit in the marginalia of the media landscape, with time passed and against a turbulent present, they acquire new potency and depth. I want to re-stage them in a contemporary vernacular—placing them outdoors to be seen again, to weather again, to be vandalised, ignored, or removed. It’s not about nostalgia, but about asking: what informs this peculiar moment we find ourselves in? The images are printed on PVC banners—the same material used by advertisers, property developers, shop owners and pub landlords declaring “under new management.” Having experimented with this material in the studio for the past year, I’m drawn to how it positions the work somewhere between advertising and painting, future proposal and forgotten moment.
Date: 2025 - 2026
Medium: Digital prints on PVC with eyelets
Scale: 155 x 221 cm. 100 images in total
