Work samples

Me Neither 

MFA Show August 2023: Seven Sets of Sitters, Seven Days, 10 Minute heads. One sitter transposed from one to the other. Read my project statement

View the gallery of sitter images used to create a 4 metre long contact sheet print. 

MFA Show “Me Neither” installation

 


Sum of Us

Clay head portrait Berlin Show October 2023 

I was invited to create a variation of Me Neither, depicting Berliners. 
48 hour turnaround 7 sitters. (including self portrait) Print contact sheet and drawings 

 


Mary Paulson Ellis Commission: Book launch ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’
Commission for book launch events 2019-20

 

Click the image below to view the cast of characters on Mary Paulson Ellis

 

Drawings examples 

 

The Edinburgh Marathon finaI 400 metres passes the end of my street. I  sketched runners 400 metres from the finish line and created a 4 metre long drawing for ‘Surfacing exhibition in June 2023 ‘ It’s just around the Corner’

 

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Experiments

 

I spent a lot of 2023 on my MFA  working with laser cutting, burning, flocking and combining hand drawing with digital. Also creating very long / large scrolls drawing with a vinyl cutter, customised with pencils. 

 

Section of 3 metre vinyl cutter drawing
7cm wide laser burning on bone
Electro Flocking on Veneer approx 20 cm height