Out of my ear fell a clump of gritty grey sand, a scab-like mass, a universe of tiny rocks and pebbles, fragments of roots, shreds of green...
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Viginarama (Yorders Cave), wearable sculpture, 2023
The Vaginaramas in 'Lapsus Calami' (curated by Eddie Peake), Marlborough London
The Vaginaramas in 'Lapsus Calami' (curated by Eddie Peake), Marlborough London
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Vaginarama (Leck Beck), wearable sculpture, 2023
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Vaginarama (Devil's Bridge), wearable sculpture, 2023
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DREDGED, site-specific installation at the Windermere Jetty Museum, 2023 (photo courtesy of Lakeland Arts)
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DREDGED, site-specific installation at the Windermere Jetty Museum, 2023 (photo by Jules Lister)
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DREDGED, site-specific installation at the Windermere Jetty Museum, 2023 (photo by Jules Lister)
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DREDGED, site-specific installation at the Windermere Jetty Museum, 2023 (photo by Jules Lister)
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Performance of DREDGED, a collaborative poem for 3 actors by Jocelyn McGregor & The Dove Cottage Poets at the Windermere Jetty Museum, 2023 (photo by Laurence Campbell). Actors: Kate Ireland, Chris Brown, Stephanie Bradshaw
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Performance of DREDGED, a collaborative poem for 3 actors by Jocelyn McGregor & The Dove Cottage Poets at the Windermere Jetty Museum, 2023 (photo by Laurence Campbell). Actors: Kate Ireland, Chris Brown, Stephanie Bradshaw
Crystalline, spidery lines etched their way across the surface, layer upon layer of them locking me in...
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DREDGED, site-specific installation at the Windermere Jetty Museum, 2023 (photo by Jules Lister)
DREDGED, site-specific installation at the Windermere Jetty Museum, 2023
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'Vale', Forth, Primary Studios, Nottingham, UK
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'Vale', Forth, Primary Studios, Nottingham, UK
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'Vale', Forth, Primary Studios, Nottingham, UK
'Earthing', Sculpture in the City: Aldgate Square Commission, London, UK, 2022-23
Performance of 'The Picnic', original monologue written & directed by me, performed by Elizabeth Connick. For Whitechapel Gallery and Sculpture in the City's 'Nocturnal Creatures' (photo by Nick Turpin)
stop-motion worms to the sound of my noodles
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'Mantle', Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK, 2022 (photo by Jules Lister)
'Mantle' detail (photo by Jules Lister)
They floated motionless except for an occasional twitch of their bodies to keep themselves from drifting apart...
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'Magpie', DCCC, Dnipro, Ukraine, 2020
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'Magpie' detail
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'Magpie' detail
A sharp pain sent a gasp hissing through her teeth...
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'The Picnic', Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018, South London Gallery & Liverpool Biennale
I rest my forehead against its knee...