A cold overcast Thursday in March, it’s 1914. After a lazy lunch with Eva at la Rotonde I pick-up an old broken wine crate abandoned outside the cafe and carry it to my studio. The one on the boulevard Raspail. With a hammer I break the crate down and save a thin but broad strip from the bottom…
things
The Cock Constantin Brâncuși 1924
As far as I am aware this is the only surviving evidence, a fading Polaroid image of The Cock I remade from found, cut and…
Commissioned by Bruce Ferguson for Walking,Thinking, Walking Louisiana Museum Of Modern Art, Denmark
The publication Errata was a parasitical intervention into a public museum, both as a guide and via the catalogue of the collection.
From the Introduction
The…
In 1992 I had an exhibition entitled Sculptures at the newly-established Cabinet Gallery, in London.
This is from the invitation card:
'The other project was, a scheme for entirely abolishing all words…
I've been thinking about things, how they're imagined, produced and circulate for some time. Living near Brick lane in London, which used to be a vast flea-market, has encouraged me to think about the material underside of consumption.
A flea market connects peoples’ actual needs and…
I'm interested in collecting as a method for making, and making sense of our biosphere. For a while, I washed and put on a shelf an example of every plastic bottle that passed through our house. Collected, these otherwise overlooked things…
Every Friday, more or less, for the past year I've been posting an image of an object #ObjectOfTheWeek on twitter.
Each object is photographed agains a white or black…
During the 1990's I was very interested in the idea of collection for making sense of the world, and to be honest I'm still interested, take a look at #ObjectOfTheWeek on…
Surrogate was screened as part of Short Bursts of Concentrated Joy
Curated by David Blamey for Houghton, the new three-day art and music festival taking place on the Houghton…