Desert Island Scenario

Carved mahogany

Trompe L'oeil

Domestic

Public Sculpture

Installation info: delicate surface - handle cautiously with clean hands or glovesA concrete cast of a loaf of bread painted the 'Brillo' logo.

Brillo Loaf

Painted concrete

Installation info: delicate surface - handle cautiously with clean hands or glovesA concrete cast of a loaf of bread painted the 'Brillo' logo.

Food

Sculpture

Installation info: delicate surface - handle cautiously with clean hands or gloves A concrete cast of a loaf of bread painted the 'Brillo' logo.

Installation info: Hang on wall avoiding direct sunlight, heat and moistureOil painting of a Flemish Stretcher Bond style brick wall, with bricks in varying tones of terracotta.

Fuit Hic

Oil and acrylic on canvas

Installation info: Hang on wall avoiding direct sunlight, heat and moistureOil painting of a Flemish Stretcher Bond style brick wall, with bricks in varying tones of terracotta.

Painting

Installation info: Hang on wall avoiding direct sunlight, heat and moisture Oil painting of a Flemish Stretcher Bond style brick wall, with bricks in varying tones of terracotta.

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup stained with tea & painted to look real.

Nomadic Assistance

Painted bronze

Polystyrene

Waste

Painted Bronze

A watercolour depicting a loaf of crusty brown bread.

Daily bread (crusty batch brown)

Fourteen framed watercolours on paper

Bread

Work on paper

A watercolour depicting a loaf of crusty brown bread.

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup with two burn holes near the rim &amp; painted to look real.

Bug Eyes

Cups

Eyes

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup with two burn holes near the rim & painted to look real.

A concrete cast of a small split tin loaf in a vitrine with &lsquo;Deja Vu&rsquo; written on both sides.

Rhetorical Loaf

Painted cerment

A concrete cast of a small split tin loaf in a vitrine with ‘Deja Vu’ written on both sides.

An ink silhouette of Ariadne in a sleeping bag, based on the paintings by De Chirico

Ariadne in a sleeping bag

Acrylic ink on printed paper

Ariadne

Outsider

An ink silhouette of Ariadne in a sleeping bag, based on the paintings by De Chirico

A watercolour depicting a loaf of wholemeal bread.

Daily Bread (Wholemeal Tin)

A watercolour depicting a loaf of wholemeal bread.

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup stained with tea &amp; painted to look real with a number of holes burnt into the sides.

Holy Grail

Smoke

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup stained with tea & painted to look real with a number of holes burnt into the sides.

Cement cast of a small split tin loaf painted with Jamaican flag.

Metaphysical Rasta Loaf

Flags

Cement cast of a small split tin loaf painted with Jamaican flag.

A bronze cast of large melon painted to look like briar wood.

Briar Melon

Melons

A bronze cast of large melon painted to look like briar wood.

A loosely worked sculpture of reclining woman lying on a double plinth based on De Chirico's paintings of ‘Ariadne’.

Stainless steel, marble dust & painted cement

A loosely worked sculpture of reclining woman lying on a double plinth based on De Chirico's paintings of ‘Ariadne’.

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup painted to look real.

The World Cup

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup painted to look real.

A pile of the dustsheets that were used to cover up all the works for the private view of 'The Stuff Show' at the South London Gallery displayed in a clear perspex vitrine.

Every art exhibition has an ‘opening’ or ‘private view’: An event which publically announces that the exhibition is open. Often in smaller exhibitions put on by galleries that have next to no marketing budget, more people attend the opening event than over the rest of the period of the exhibition. This is a very frustrating situation for the artist, who realizes (through his or her own experience) that people do not attend art openings to spend quality time with the art but to ‘clock’ the art and chat to the other people. The idea of ‘who’ was at the opening becomes slightly more important than ‘what’ was at the opening.

For the opening of his exhibition ‘The Stuff Show’ at the South London Gallery 1998, as an extension of this thought and to generate a piece of thought-provoking performance art, the Artist made a controversial decision. As the visitors arrived at the opening they were confronted by the sight of eighteen pieces of art: free standing sculptures of various sizes, as well as large and small wall pieces, all elegantly covered ‘Christo style’ with beige linen dustsheets. 
Christo is an artist who is famous for his wrapped sculptures which vary in scale and ambition from a recognizable chair form to more ambitions architectural projects such as wrapping the Reichstag in Germany. 
Most visitors to the private view found the event confusing or even offensive: were they not trusted to evaluate and ‘see’ the art? Now they would have to find their way back to the gallery if they wished to view the actual art later on (the dustsheets were removed the next morning ready for the regular visitors).

For Open House, Sherborne, the artist has represented the dustsheets from the exhibition in a perspex vitrine. The name Zeuxis and Parrhasios comes from the famous ancient Greek anecdote as retold in the book ‘Stealing the Mona Lisa. What Art Stops Us From Seeing’, by psychoanalyst Darian Leader. This is the story of two artists who compete with each other to make a great painting. Zeuxis paints some grapes that are so lifelike that they attract some birds. Parrhasios then invites him to pull back the curtain covering his own masterwork, but when Zeuxis tries to do so, he finds that the curtain itself is the painting. Zeuxis and the birds are both deceived by an image and are both frustrated by the seeming deception, perhaps more than the skill and thought that went into the image.

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Zeuxis and Parrhasios

Dustsheets in perspex vitrine

Wrapped

A pile of the dustsheets that were used to cover up all the works for the private view of 'The Stuff Show' at the South London Gallery displayed in a clear perspex vitrine.

A concrete cast of a loaf of bread painted the 'Brillo' logo.

Brillo loaf

A concrete cast of a loaf of bread painted the 'Brillo' logo.

A small loosely worked bust of ‘Ariadne’ with her arm over her head, based on the paintings by De Chirico.

The Swimmer

Fired earthenware

Clay

A small loosely worked bust of ‘Ariadne’ with her arm over her head, based on the paintings by De Chirico.

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup stained with tea &amp; painted to look real with a bite mark in the rim.

Smiley Cup

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup stained with tea & painted to look real with a bite mark in the rim.

A drawing of a loaf of bread with the words &lsquo;et in arc' written on the sides.

Et in arc

Coloured pencil on paperPrint of font

A drawing of a loaf of bread with the words ‘et in arc' written on the sides.

A concrete cast of a loaf of bread painted with a camouflage pattern in different tones of bread colours: burnt toast, crust colour, dough etc.

Bread Camouflage Bread

Camouflage

A concrete cast of a loaf of bread painted with a camouflage pattern in different tones of bread colours: burnt toast, crust colour, dough etc.

A small loosely worked maquette of the ‘Ariadne’ sculpture, with the addition of a begging cup, from the paintings by De Chirico.

Rough Sleeper

A small loosely worked maquette of the ‘Ariadne’ sculpture, with the addition of a begging cup, from the paintings by De Chirico.

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup stained with tea &amp; painted to look real with DART written on the bottom.

Cup D&rsquo;Art

A bronze cast of a polystyrene cup stained with tea & painted to look real with DART written on the bottom.

Cup D'Art

Salami with electronic equipment inside.

Salamis, (after Andrei Tarkovski)

Salamis & electronic equipment

A bronze cast of a figure curled up in a sleeping bag, painted to look real in purple with an orange lining.

At first sight this appears to be the form of a homeless sleeper. Wrapped in a sleeping bag cocoon, its title implies a wonderer living peripatetic life outside our cultural value systems. But the soft folds of the sleeping bag turn out to be hard metal, a painted bronze cast of this embarrassing cultural phenomenon. With uncompromising stillness the sculpture will never move or wander except at the behest of an art transport hoist. This image captured forever in the gallery, allows the viewer to wonder about lives led outside the ordinary; it gives them the power to stare.

Nomad

A bronze cast of a figure curled up in a sleeping bag, painted to look real in purple with an orange lining.

Five images painted onto the sides of a plywood cube,each depicting a facsimile copy of a brand name of bottled water.

Bo&icirc;te de Source

Painted plywood

Packaging

Five images painted onto the sides of a plywood cube,each depicting a facsimile copy of a brand name of bottled water.

Boîte de Source

A small loosely worked maquette of the ‘Ariadne’ sculpture from the paintings by De Chirico.

Reclining figure

A small loosely worked maquette of the ‘Ariadne’ sculpture from the paintings by De Chirico.

Three circular tea stains inside each other, getting increasingly smaller resembling a target.

Tea Target

Tea on paper

Stain

Three circular tea stains inside each other, getting increasingly smaller resembling a target.

Oil painting of a Flemish Stretcher Bond style brick wall, with bricks in varying tones of terracotta.

Oil painting of a Flemish Stretcher Bond style brick wall, with bricks in varying tones of terracotta.

A concrete cast of a small split tin loaf painted to look real with the words Succour, Sucker painted on the sides.

Succour, Sucker

A concrete cast of a small split tin loaf painted to look real with the words Succour, Sucker painted on the sides.

A concrete cast of a loaf of bread painted with a camouflage pattern in pink, maroon, blue and turquoise representing a range of natural mould colourations.

Mould Camouflage Bread

A concrete cast of a loaf of bread painted with a camouflage pattern in pink, maroon, blue and turquoise representing a range of natural mould colourations.