Cast iron box. I'm reading Freud's "Family Romances" and still thinking about heirlooms, unwanted traits and burdens.

necklaces

Drawings of necklaces. Graphite on paper. Exploring ideas of heirlooms and familial relationships.

Table clothes

An image of an older piece of work recently re-displayed in the Hockey Gallery.

new work

Lead pieces which will be on display in the Interim Show. On from 12th-18th January.

Curses

I am making a series of brooches, un-wearable and cast in lead.

They are a group or part of a collection and they speak of Roman lead curses, lead votive pilgrim badges, war won (war worn) medals, souvenirs and mementoes. As amulets for modern living or literal burdens to be worn and carried about. I am thinking about invested objects and their verisimilitude.

Lead with its connotations of the industrial, the poisonous and toxic, and its weightiness; and brooches, too, with their history of being pretty, decorative and way of marking out the wearer

I am using traditional casting methods with cuttlefish bones and silicon whose transparent supple skin yields hard metal shapes.

The lead will be made precious with additions of pearls and coral; coral with its supposed ability to keep away the evil eye and its associations of ‘life blood’.

Blanket, cotton bandage, soft woollen fabric or silk might be attached. Silk for striped medal ribbons. I like the mixture of textures and there is already something soft about lead.

Ectoplasm handkerchiefs.

These are 3 images of new work about ectoplasm and séances.

Some collages inspired by the use of arsenic in Victorian wallpaper for a project to design wallpaper. Eventually the collages will be put into a repeat and used as a pattern.