This series appropriates colour postcards featuring people looking across nostalgic picturesque landscapes with the addition of an anachronistic hovering silver orb. The figures on the postcard are captivated by this alien object from the future. The semi-reflective plastic disc promises to reveal insights into the onlookers destiny or that of our own.
2021
The Time Machine (Splendour in the Rockies)
The Time Machine (Great Langdale, Cumbria)
The Time Machine (Perranporth, Cornwall)
The Time Machine (Widemouth Bay)
The Time Machine (The Blue Pool, Near Wareham, Dorset)
Found photographic postcards which are hand-painted by the artist showing representations of the night sky. The pre-sent cards have personal messages on the reverse written by the original sender. Each work forms a link to those that have already made their onward journey to the heavens.
Original postcards, acrylic paint, 2021
Postcards from Heaven (All is going very well here, the food is good and most of the sessions are worthwhile)
Postcards from Heaven (Arrived safe and well. Palatial hotel, terrific weather, excellent service. Everyone speaks English)
Postcards from Heaven (Everything OK. Making the most of this life of doing nothing. Some changes since we were here, but I think you will find your way about when you come.)
Installation with various postcard works
2019
Climbing Through a Postcard
2019
This is a Real Colour Photograph
2019
A re-imagining of the terrorist attack at Westgate Shopping Centre in Nairobi transposed to Westfield in Stratford, East London. These four postcards recall Edwardian examples published to commemorate disasters such as coal mine explosions.
Limited edition of 25, each one individually numbered, 2014