Opposites

Two knots, one 15m of white poly-rope and one 15m of seagrass dyed with Indian ink.

The Magic Golden Knot

Picture frames, fluoro price stickers, fishing line, and a magic golden knot. A tribute to the cheap special effects I grew up on. The mysterious spinning energy in a cube, that powered a ship or connected to another dimension. (The golden knot spins in its container.) I remember my parents explaining that Buck Rogers and Dr. Who were frighteningly real in the 70s, that often they would have to hide behind the sofa, almost too scared to watch.

Empty Signs

Cobble Puzzle

Cobbles in the streets laid by hand like typesetting with lead. Printers' proof marks in fluoro. Taken up, reshuffled and relaid at random, like a typetray dropped on the floor.

Knots

Two knots, made with poly-rope and lots of time. One is 15m of white, the other 10m white and 5m black. These growths or complexes are macquettes for a series of large sculptures I am preparing to make in the New Year.

The Ruin

I am now living in Prague. There is a place here I call The Ruins. One day I found men there. They were marking up the ruins with their bright paint, whether for reconstruction or demolition I do not know. The paint is brighter than anything around it; it takes invisible energy and makes it into light.

Between Heaven & Earth

Between Heaven & Earth was an exhibition of my ongoing work 'The Eisegete's Cell' in my local parish church, St. Andrew's, Bolam. The purpose of the work was to stimulate thought and discussion during Lent about some of the difficult issues surrounding Bible translation and exegesis.

The works comprised three linked groups; a set of four 90x90cm paintings, small sculptures grouped around the Mediæval font, and an installation of books, prints, pins and thread on a table.

The paintings were on three Bible passages; the temptations of Jesus during his 40 days in the wilderness, Moses'40 days on Mt. Sinai and Israel's 40 years wandering, and Genesis XI:1-9, the story of Babel.