ein einic ein (2025) mixed media 

This is a large work on canvas, a kind of deconstructed painting. It's made of various paints, oils, pigments, powders, and other materials on canvas. The canvas has 4 rivet holes along the top, which are used to catch the canvas onto nails the are sunk into 4 fragments of found wood which will be attached to the gallery wall. The wood is various sections of old Victorian floorboards pulled out of a house in Sowerby Bridge, where I live. 

Visually, it draws a lot from surfaces found in the immediate environment of Sowerby Bridge... weathered walls, signs hung on walls etc... so there's an industrial element to the work, but it's softer, more ephemeral, with elements of Landscape (poetic, Romantic) running through. 

that that had had (2025), ballast (2025) & bildungsroman (2025)

Two graphite works on paper, mounted on a beech panel and set within a frame made from the same floorboards as those used in the world on canvas. These also draw on the imagery of Sowerby Bridge, and it's weathered walls, scratched bus stop glass, rusted walls of skips etc. While they're not literal figurative representations of the surfaces, I made these drawings with the idea of many surfaces overlaid to make kind of palimpsests... layers of histories stacked on top of each other. I kept this idea in mind whilst making the works, but I also ran with where the marks and material (graphite and eraser) took me, so I think of them somewhere between abstract and figurative. Neither/nor, really.