2012-18
And stand a ruin amidst ruins. 400 x 250cm. Oil, acrylic, spray paint, canvas, LED neon, perspex, taxidermy, wood. Commissioned New Expressions - a New Opportunities Award for Newstead Abbey.
Domestic Camouflage: Painting in the pathless woods
words by Wayne Burrows
At the end of a very intensive 3 years of activity (art, work and babies!), starting with a show at (the former) Cornerhouse, Manchester, and ending with the New Opportunities Award, Wayne Burrows - a Nottingham-based poet, artist and art writer - reflected about the paintings produced within this period within an essay for my book And Stand a Ruin Amidst Ruins.
Download Domestic Camouflage here
Waiting for Master (part 2)
127 x 90 cm. Oil, acrylic, collage, spray paint on canvas, with MDF, taxidermy skull and LED neon (white, yellow and orange).
The Chase (part 2)
107 x 83 cm. Oil, acrylic, collage, spray paint, canvas, resin, taxidermy and LED neon.
Commissioned by Cornerhouse, Manchester
A Clear Day, Shooter & Dogs
114 x 87 cm. Oil, acrylic, collage, spray paint on canvas, with MDF and LED neon (pink and red).
The Chase (part 1)
107 x 83 cm. Oil, acrylic, collage, spray paint, canvas, resin, taxidermy and LED neon.
The Chase (part 2)
127 x 90 cm. Oil, acrylic, collage, spray paint on canvas, with MDF, taxidermy skull and LED neon (white, yellow and orange).
Commissioned by Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester.
Waiting for Master (part 1)
127 x 90 cm. Oil, acrylic, collage, spray paint on canvas, with MDF, taxidermy skull and LED neon (white, yellow and orange).
The Chase (part 1)
127 x 90 cm. Oil, acrylic, collage, spray paint on canvas, with MDF, taxidermy skull and LED neon (white, yellow and orange).
Commissioned by Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester.
Violas
127 x 90 cm. Oil, acrylic, collage, spray paint on canvas, with MDF, taxidermy skull and LED neon (white and blue).
Films
Here are two films by Debs Storey made about this series at the juncture of two solo exhibitions; ‘And Stand a Ruin Amidst Ruins’, at Newstead Abbey, and ‘There is a pleasure in the pathless woods’ at Lakeside Arts at the University of Nottingham.