Fuchsia

Re-workings of photographic prints, scratchings and erasures. Each drawing/print is only 10cm. The sculptural forms, made out of sugar paste in a state of decay, are a similar size.

This work has an intimacy of making, scale and weight of line that stands in direct contrast to the Poniou poly-form. Richard Mabey refers to ‘weeds’[2] as “the boundary breakers, the stateless minority, who remind us that life is not that tidy. They could help us to learn to live across nature’s borderlines again” (Mabey 2012, 291-2). Like many so called weeds, the opportunistic fuchsia is well travelled across societies and through time.

The word weeds, often used by us in a derogatory way, denotes those plants that have actually an amazing ability to defy our attempts at control, as a visit to my allotment and its beautiful but vegetable strangling display of bindweed shows...

Fuchsia

Re-workings of photographic prints, scratchings and erasures. Each drawing/print is only 10cm. The sculptural forms, made out of sugar paste in a state of decay, are a similar size.

This work has an intimacy of making, scale and weight of line that stands in direct contrast to the Poniou poly-form. Richard Mabey refers to ‘weeds’[2] as “the boundary breakers, the stateless minority, who remind us that life is not that tidy. They could help us to learn to live across nature’s borderlines again” (Mabey 2012, 291-2). Like many so called weeds, the opportunistic fuchsia is well travelled across societies and through time.

The word weeds, often used by us in a derogatory way, denotes those plants that have actually an amazing ability to defy our attempts at control, as a visit to my allotment and its beautiful but vegetable strangling display of bindweed shows...