Pen and pencil on paper 21-22
594 x 841mm
Commissioned for Marchmont House
Berwickshire
Scotland
www.marchmonthouse.com
Available as limited edition prints. See SHOP
Tods former house and project
Gallery space
Artists residencies
Berwick upon Tweed
By appointment
Photos by Colin Davison
Drawings of Waxwing 2020
Waxwing House, Berwick upon Tweed
Pen and pencil on A3 paper
For sale £1000 each
Spectra 2021
Mural commission in response to the Centre Building
London School of Economics
Through Contemporary Art Society
2020
Pen and pencil on paper,
Framed drawings for sale £700 See SHOP
Two hundred years ago, in 1818, the same year that Mary Shelly published Frankenstein, these smoke-belching Regency houses marched out of London into the countryside. The fields were mined for clay to fire for bricks, advance- troops of an accelerating industrial economy.
These drawings are reworked from a photograph of the terrace taken in 1958, that showed a smog stained structure mended with remedial brickwork, the building shaken by a WW2 bomb that exploded to the rear. This is the North London terrace that I grew up in—seven years before my parents moved in.
The house (on right) in its place on the street is formative to my work, linking interests in architecture, history, and our place in nature. Its small interior spaces, covered in 70’s wallpaper and my father’s DIY sensibilities, stack in my imagination to form a castle tower, or rocket. The exterior back space transforming from a yard complete with air-raid shelter and covered-over-coal- cellars, to that of carefully tended garden.
These drawings play with the building’s entire block, unleashing the contents of the house back at itself. What is possible, where are we going? In celebration, ruin, and revamp, through the rise and fall of economy, human conflict, and cultural flux: snapshot views of parallel worlds.
Pool of London 2004
Metallic acrylic on Board
installed at the Waterside Academy 2017
Kingsland Rd
London
Floor paint on board
Durbar Hall, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
Commissioned for Coastal Currents Festival, Hastings
Photography by Alex Brattell
Digital print on dibond panel
Balham High Street, London
Working with architects Metropolitan Workshop
Commissioned by Wandsworth Council and Balham Partnership
Through Modus Operandi
First 2 photographs by Simon Kennedy
Faience ceramic tile
Balham Station, London
Working with architects Metropolitan Workshop
Commissioned by Wandsworth Council and Balham Partnership
Through Modus Operandi
First 5 photographs by Simon Kennedy
Sculpture commission
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
London
Curated by Parabola
Installation in group show The Hecklers
The New Art Gallery Walsall
Curated by Cedar Lewisohn
Artwork for the reception area of The Apex
A multi-purpose venue Bury St Edmunds
Through Commissions East
