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For Your Safety & Security
2014. Vitrines, wallpaper, nylon and acrylic paint. Each 53 x 65 x 7 cm.

Marcel Duchamp suggested to Richard Hamilton that he produce his own versions of classical genres, prompting Hamilton’s 1970′s ‘Flowers and Shit’ series, to which I have responded with my own flower paintings, infested with weaponised insects.
For Your Safety & Security – Eglantine 1
2014. Vitrine, wallpaper, nylon and acrylic paint. 70 x 75 x 7 cm.

Marcel Duchamp suggested to Richard Hamilton that he produce his own versions of classical genres, prompting Hamilton’s 1970′s ‘Flowers and Shit’ series, to which I have responded with my own flower paintings, infested with weaponised insects.
For Your Safety & Security – Eglantine 1 (detail)
2014. Vitrine, wallpaper, nylon and acrylic paint. 70 x 75 x 7 cm.
For Your Safety & Security – Abundance 1 (detail)
2014. Vitrine, wallpaper, nylon and acrylic paint. 53 x 65 x 7 cm.

Marcel Duchamp suggested to Richard Hamilton that he produce his own versions of classical genres, prompting Hamilton’s 1970’s ‘Flowers and Shit’ series, to which I have responded with my own flower paintings.
For Your Safety & Security – Madras Violet (detail)
2014. Vitrine, wallpaper, nylon and acrylic paint. 53 x 65 x 7 cm.

Weaponised insects are camouflaged to blend in with floral wallpaper.
All Alone Together
Solo exhibition

Gibberd Gallery

19 June-23 August 2013

The Watergardens, Harlow, Essex

Three sculptural installations – claustrophobic, defensive spaces reminiscent of military bunkers – have been built in the gallery, and individuals and groups in Harlow are invited to make use of them. Here is an opportunity to examine the meaning of selfhood and togetherness, developing the idea of a community art gallery as a place of meeting and action.

Image: Bunkers 1,2 & 3
Interesting Times
Group exhibition

University of Leicester Botanic Garden

Curated by Almuth Tebbenhoff

July to October 2012

Image: ‘Everything Is Under Control’

One of two installations at ‘Interesting Times’