‘Silks of Bloomsbury’ have been created by residents of Bloomsbury, Holborn and King’s Cross through free workshops as part of the 2023 Bloomsbury Festival. In my workshop we all brought our individual specific ideas and photos to illustrate our local heritage.I brought along images of the gorgeous 200 year old Bloomsbury plane – outside my front …
Usually, hands shape media into a sculpture.But when Blindaid lead, Scott gave me some metal to make a sculpture from, I thought I’d instead use the medium to shape my hand into a sculpture. My examining hands used to be a natural, sensual and automatic part of my life. Now my hands are so much …
Here are brief details of most of my Covid-era pieces – so far:Starting from the first lockdown, being forcibly separated from my previous ‘normal’ helped (actually forced!) me to work with a range of new-to-me media – including installation, (prize-winning) film, mixed photo-drawing, and weaving. I’ve used these to reflect on my ever-changing lived experience in the …
Location Crossing the line: in more than one way Prime meridian – and longitude clocks More than one nowhere? Ships : slave ships and the West Africa Squadron a. LOCATION b. Whats it like at 00 00? b. CROSSING THE LINE Crossing the equator is marked by sailors with ceremonies to Neptune as detailed here: …
This self-portrait is a patients-eye view of Multimorbidity.It’s a montage of my photos of me plus (some of) my x-rays. With ageing populations worldwide, and the epidemiological transition towards long term conditions, multimorbidity is a huge and increasing problem. Long Covid is adding to this. Although multiple diagnoses have multiplicative rather than simply additive effects, …
This exhibition shows photos of the moon taken – in all directions – out of my small flat / from my balcony.
My photos are primarily about what I saw FROM my windows. So it seems appropriate to display examples of my ‘moonlets’ IN the windows of of the Dialogue Hub Cafe. Here above are some onsite photos (on a very sunny day so with lots of reflections – apologies!): While I sketched the moon, I saw …
The Lunar Calendar determines – and remembers – so much for Muslims. All the key historic events during the earliest years of Islam. The Hajj. And, of course, Ramadan.I installed these images the day before Ramadan 2022 started. So check this out for an appropriate starter image: Whoever sights (the new moon) Let him fast …
This is a 3 metre montage of sequential photos taken from my flat during the course of one night, following the moon from dusk to sunrise. As the moon does, the photos sail high up during the night, starting above my front door, floating over my block, then slowly descending over the block opposite. It …
The gorgeous Joy in Weaving wanted my Freeswimming Freeweaving weave to be included in an exhibition she was organising in … the British Museum. So my work has been in the British Museum!! Temporarily anyway. As my friends said: kind of unusual to have something Made in Britain, and not looted from somewhere!