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INSTALLATION ARTIST

Death Dreams & Desire 2022

Part of a group exhibition inspired by the work of Sigmund Freud. Focusing on his work on the interpretation of dreams, this site specific installation in a derelict house (Safehouse1, London) shared my personal dreams from the last 30 years using stitch, printmaking and audio. The audio soundtrack alternated me narrating my dreams with Freud's writings about what dreams mean. Visitors experienced the unconscious mind spilling out of a fireplace and fragments of dreams falling from the rafters, along with portrait imagery of the sleeping artist.

Dream Fragments 1

Paper and Cloth Fragments held together with thread. 115 cm x 120cm.

100 Dreams

Card and stitch, 100cm x 100cm

The Dreams

Strips of cloth stitched with personal dreams 15mm x various lengths

Uncontainable

Coloured strips of cloth spill out of a disused fireplace. Above and each side of the fireplace hang images of the artist sleeping

Dream Fragments 1

Paper and Cloth Fragments held together with thread. 115 cm x 120cm. Site specific - installed below rafters at SafeHouse1 in Peckham, London

Dream Shadows

Screenprinted images of the artist sleeping. Various substrates stitched together. 80cm x 80cm

Uncontainable

Coloured strips of cloth spill out of a disused fireplace

The Dreams

Strips of cloth stitched with personal dreams 15mm x various lengths

The Dreams

Strips of cloth stitched with personal dreams 15mm x various lengths

Dream Fragments (detail)

Paper and Cloth Fragments held together with thread. 115 cm x 120cm.

Embodied Loss 2021

Transparent Dress

Waxed paper and stitch. 20cm x 25cm x 3cm

Transparent Dress (detail)

Waxed paper and stitch. 20cm x 25cm x 3cm

Transparent Dress

Vinyl and stitch. 15cm x 23cm x 3cm

Transparent Dress

Deli paper and stitch. 25cm x 40cm x 3cm

Transparent Dress

Deli paper and stitch. 25cm x 40cm x 3cm (altered photograph)

Transparent Dress

Deli paper and stitch. 25cm x 40cm x 3cm

Transparent Dresses

Vinyl and stitch, various sizes between 30cm and 50 cm tall

Transparent Dress

Deli paper and stitch. 25cm x 40cm x 3cm

Transparent Dress

Deli paper and stitch. 25cm x 40cm x 3cm

Transparent Dresses

Mixed media, various sizes between 30cm and 50cm tall

Unspoken 2019

This site specific installation was part of a group exhibition at the Crypt Gallery in Hastings, UK. It was part of a larger personal project about displacement, loss and inherited legacy inspired by my own family history. In 2018 I was given previously unseen paperwork from World Jewish Relief documenting the support given to my father and grandparents when they arrived in England as refugees from Nazi occupied Europe in 1938. An immersive space conveying the multitude of difficult feelings and pain they must have experienced and the discomfort that endures from this history.

Unspoken

Site specific installation 200cm x 300cm

Rejected, Abandoned, Interned

Stitch on collarless white men's shirt

Rejected, Abandoned

Stitch on collarless children's white shirts

Cabinet Drawer Front

Unattached drawer front hanging directly on the wall 14 cm x 9cm

Refugee Suitcase

Brown leather suitcase, 45cm x 30m x 10cm

The Documents

Facsimiles of immigration documentation, Nazi era passport and charity support documentation

Rejected, Abandoned, Interned

Stitch on collarless white men's shirt

Documentation

Facsimiles of charity support documentation. 29cm x 21cm

Cabinet Drawer Front

Unattached drawer front hanging directly on the wall 14 cm x 9cm

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