Installations
Terminus: I can't tell where I end and you begin
Beirut Art Centre (2009)
This site-specific installation creates a ceiling-less room made from locally sourced second-hand doors. The doors are fully functional; hung on a frame, each door can be opened, closed, sometimes even locked, and are intended to be traversed by the viewing public. Each door brings with it it’s own past-life; a history of place, purpose and people.
This interactivity results in a dynamic transitional space. It is a permeable architectural membrane that simultaneously creates an recursive border, a space within a space, whilst collapsing the boundary between untouchable-art and functional-design. The structure offers scaffolding for metaphors of biological limits, relational boundaries and geographic borders. It is a meditation of opportunities and barriers, beginnings and endings, transitions and transformations, journeys and destinations. It asks its audience to consider the mundane portals they access thoughtlessly and profound thresholds that have fundamentally changed their trajectory.
Terminus was first created in 2008 for the Fine Art Graduate Exhibition at the University of Reading (now the Reading School of Art) and recreated anew in 2009 for the Beirut Art Centre’s curated group exhibition ‘Exposure’. It’s position in the main BAC exhibition space offered a new dimension of architectural playfulness. Situated between supporting pillars of the lightwell created by the first floor mezzanine, voyeurism entered the interactive dialogue.
University of Reading (2008)
Remember Me
Performance / Video / Installation (2008)
Events and interactions, no matter how small the instance, can have a remarkable power to disturb the everyday and create a new connectivity with a stranger. “Remember Me” was performed on Wednesday 7th May 2008 on the Circle Line of the London Underground. Starting from one end of the train and working along one side of each carriage until reaching the end, I repeatedly wrote the words “Remember Me” on square yellow sticky notes and stuck them sequentially along the windows, engaging in conversations as I went along and leaving behind the evidence of the action behind for others to engage with in my absence.
Documentation of video installation
The video piece resulting from the performance is edited and looped so there is no beginning nor end to this journey, not unlike the then circular nature of the Circle Line. Shown on a TV screen placed on a simple plinth situated in a busy corridor, the piece is not located in a space for lingering. Instead, viewers are invited to pass by in the corridor, watch perhaps and depart in much the same way as commuters did on that Wednesday afternoon, hopping on that particular train by chance and leaving again when their stop came around. The remaining sticky notes from the performance are attached to the back of the plinth, rewarding keen-eyed viewers with their own souvenir of the experience just as commuters were able to claim a sticky note that day.
Textile
Drawing
Fauna
Life Drawing
Digital Work
