Untitled Destruction (Gun)

Cast Black Wax

Exhibited at "Derogatory or Nice" Flat Exhibition

By taking an object of such obvious ferocity, I wanted to disway the fear that can be caused at just the sight of such an object. By presenting a gradual destruction of the image, the viewer can tell these guns on the wall are not real and have no threat.

Untitled Destruction (Hay)

Hay, Burnt Hay.

Exhibited at RE:DO, Domane Marienberg, Hildesheim

http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/raum/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=68&Itemid=35&lang=en

This work is one of two which were created in Domane Marienberg, Hildesheim as part of the RE:DO project. The RE:DO consisted of several artists from Glasgow School of Art, invited to make work alongside German students from Hildesheim University, within the grounds of a soon to be demolished site.

This work demonstrates a desire to control the nature of a destructive act. the square represents this as there no perfect squares in nature. By creating a perfect one metre by one metre square shows this precise destructive intervention.

Untitled Destruction (Brick)

Two Bricks Crushed to Dust, Latex Rubber, MDF Supports

http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/raum/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=68&Itemid=35&lang=en

The second of two works created as part of the RE:DO project in Hildesheim. In this work, two bricks were painstakingly removed from a wall of one of the soon to de demolished buildings. These bricks were then individually crushed into dust in a controlled environment where all remains could be gathered and collected. This dust was then mixed with Latex rubber and set in a brick shape mould. Once set, both the bricks were returned to the place in which they were taken.

These bricks, now, part brick, part rubber, are more likely to survive the demolition process and go on eventually to be found at a later date.

Death Rattle (Video)

Burning Match Held in Front of Active Microphone

Exhibited firstly at SEA Salt Group Show, Salmarket, Glasgow.

Exhibited again at One Creative Scotland, Tollhouse Studios, Glasgow

http://www.theskinny.co.uk/article/43723-one-creative-scotland-the-tollhouse-studios-glasgow-13-sep

With 'Death Rattle' I wanted to create emotions for what is nothing more than an inanimate object. By capturing the death of what is only a match, by attatching an element in which the viewer can relate to as human, this simple video of a match being burned becomes more than that, it becomes a documented exucution.This video is to be seen in a sound proof, pitch black viewing area. When the match is lit, the veiwer will be showered in sound and light, but as the match gradually fades out and eventually 'dies', the viewer will be drowned in darkness. At this point the match's death rattle can be heard.

34,560

Thirty Four Thousand, Five Hundred and Sixty Hand Drawn Circles

Exhibited at Hotel Bloom, Room 209 (Permanent), Brussels, Belgium

http://www.hotelbloom.com/frescos-en.html


































This work was created as part of The Hotel Blooms, BLOOM project. Artists from all over Europe where invited to come to the hotel and paint a mural in one of the 20o rooms due for refurbishment.

I wanted to create a work that would reflect the occupant in the room. At the time I was interested in counting as an artform. I was creating works that the viewer could take some form of satisfaction with, in the knowledge that they know exactly how many marks had been made in the creation of these works.
























I wanted to finish off this series of drawings and experimentations by making one last work, on such a scale i hadn't attempted before. The work I created for the Bloom Project '34,560' reflects the exact amount of heartbeats an average person has in an average 8 hours of sleep. Each red circle drawn represents one heartbeat mimicking the appearance of a blood cell.


PLAQUE WITHIN HOTEL ROOM























PRESS CLIPPING

Untitled Destruction (Stool)

Wooden stool, taken apart with hammer, documented, displayed then put back together.

This destruction of a stool was done so in a manic fashion. The destruction was thoughless, it took only minutes to reduce what was once useful object into shards of scrap. At this point, the caring side of my character I have chosen to create takes control.

First he collects the shards, documents them, photographs them individually and organises them. once this has taken place, he displays them in a new way on the wall. And then, the reconstruction of the stool begins.

I plan to have several exhibitions which take place in three parts. This piece or something similar will be a part of that.

The first Show, will consist of the destruction of objects, plants, furniture etc. The second show will consist of the displaying of the destruction in a formalized manner. Not heaps on a floor, but documented destruction. And the third show will exhibit these objects once reassembled.