This series appropriates colour postcards featuring people looking across nostalgic picturesque landscapes with the addition of an anachronistic hovering silver orb. The figures on the postcard are captivated by this alien object from the future. The semi-reflective plastic disc promises to reveal insights into the onlookers destiny or that of our own.
2021
The Time Machine (Splendour in the Rockies)
The Time Machine (Great Langdale, Cumbria)
The Time Machine (Perranporth, Cornwall)
The Time Machine (Widemouth Bay)
The Time Machine (The Blue Pool, Near Wareham, Dorset)
Selected from a collection of late 20th century used postcards, each work is hand-painted by the artist to create idealistic representations of a celestial sky. The pre-sent cards have personal messages on the reverse written by an unknown sender who is long-gone. The adaptation of the cards imagines that they have been sent from heaven forming a communication with the afterlife. The words take on new meaning and conjure fanciful ideas of heaven that brings to mind post-war romantic cinematic depictions such as in Powell and Pressburger’s film A Matter of Life and Death (1946).
Unique postcards, acrylic paint, 2021 (dimensions variable)
All is going very well here, the food is good and most of the sessions are worthwhile.
Arrived safe and well. Palatial hotel, terrific weather, excellent service. Everyone speaks English.
Everything OK. Making the most of this life of doing nothing. Some changes since we were here, but I think you will find your way about when you come.
We arrived safely. Weather has been fine. Nice hotel we have got our own shower. Fellowship is lovely and food is nice.
Installation with various postcard works
2019
Climbing Through a Postcard
2019
This is a Real Colour Photograph
2019
A re-imagining of the terrorist attack at Westgate Shopping Centre in Nairobi transposed to Westfield in Stratford, East London. These four postcards recall Edwardian examples published to commemorate disasters such as coal mine explosions.
Limited edition of 25, each one individually numbered, 2014
