EXHIBIT

Something Rich and Strange 2023 - present

It’s about me meeting, and working, with a new creative partner. In the past I've mainly worked with other humans. But this partnership will be new. It will pair an organic intelligence with a synthetic one. 

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Upcycled packaging material. 2020 

The chill winds of environmentalism have blown away most of these polystyrene forms.White goods packaging is mainly paper based and compostable now. But I got fascinated by their disposability and immortality. I imagined them as fossil records of the Anthropocene.

A series of old-fashioned oil paintings. 2020-21

During the Covid pandemic the city slept. The route along Bishopsgate street that Shakespeare and I trudged to work, 400 years apart, was empty and quiet. Only the birdsong and glistening, empty towers silhouette against a silvery winter sky.

Psychogeographic poetry in the Parisian sky 1996

This was a piece of folie. Random points on a map of Paris, a crazed treasure hunt through the winter streets of the city of light. Fun fact: camera work by Hollywood director Rupert Wainwright.

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The Sound of Your Face, 2014

SOLO is a wall-mounted tablet with audio speakers. When the subject looks into the screen their face is scanned and the data used to build their own, unique musical biometric portrait. 

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Augmented Reality interactive audio paintings, 2013

Military insignia become music by assigning a musical note to each colour, with the width of ribbon-colour dictating the length of that note. The acclaimed Soprano Susan Parkes sings the scores and the resulting songs are contained within a smartphone app, available from the Apple or Android App Stores.

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Hand-blown glass containing teddy bear holograms

York, UK 1997

The day I infected the City of York with a virus certainly generated some press. Even though they were only artfully abandoned shiny objects - containing a hologram of a silver teddy bear with a hand grenade chained around his neck, it still caused a stir. National press, local TV. Funtimes.

The Gulf Stream, North Atlantic, 1995

144 sealed jars thrown into the Gulf Stream off the coast of Florida. Jars contained 3 wishes for the finder to make:  for something Impossible, something Forgotten and something Crazy.  Plus a return mailer addressed to me in France - got some interesting responses.

Day-Glo temple to our microscopic pals

Aix-en-Provence, 1998

 A series of translucent panels displayed photo-microscopy pictures of some of the more lethal viruses the human body is home to. Superimposed on them were verses from the bible - a passage from the book of The Wisdom of Solomon from the book of Apocrypha in the bible.

Distributing 'Escape' cards to random people I meet, 1995

 Escape cards were given to people whose paths crossed mine. After years of struggling to find walls to hang my paintings I was free to exhibit anywhere I chose. Cards were placed inside Ed Keinholz sculptures at the LA County Museum - our first

collaboration. The romantic ruins of Clark Gable’s pool house, high above Hollywood in the Runyon Canyon Park became the site of another show.