Artist, friend of nature.
Sculpting from nowt'
utilising waste material the artist creates a skeleton for the sculpture to build upon.
This project is collaborative with Artists based at Artworks South Yorkshire.
Bears and Birds of Barnsley
Big Bastard: Boot sale booze up
All Hail Big Bastard
" I met him at an Auction. They sold ferrets and bags of clothes, spanners and white vans, boxes of vibrators, and collections of magazines from 1984. It was a working class spectacle. I watched this man spit and growl at his children as he gripped a can of Stella Artois. chugging the beverage in one, he crushed the can between bulbous knuckles. I watched the lager trickle down his neck down to his bloated stomach, resting in his cavenous belly button. He threw the empty can into a wheel barrow and his associates hailed, " Big Bastard!" as his son jumped up and down upon the empty can with glee. That was inspiring."
Ostracised/Ostrichised
"A large collection of eggs, ostrich eggs, could be considered quite unusual in Britian. Their history, more so. When ostrich farming became popular amongst the more affluent, a few small scale farms extended their buisness to capitalise on this none native bird. The ostrich requires specific conditions for it to succesfully breed, of which were quite often not met in the U.K. The parents of these eggs were angry, i had met them just a short drive away from my childhood home, sandwiched in the Yorkshire countryside between fields of sheep. The ostriches were like dinosaurs to me, at age 6. They seem all the more beastily upon discovering the injuries the farmer and his wife experienced. No one has been able to tell me where the ostriches ended, only that they never succesfully bred."
Is your head in the sand?
This little bird, was greater than I
CAST IN SHIT
Postcrete mix set in a plastic bag, dug into a mound of manure. From the postcrete mound emerges a rusty Hoe and metal top which precariously balances a goldfinch nest consisting of horse hair, wood shavings, twig and moss.
A precarious balance.
Thick as two short planks.
THE BIRD IS AN ARTIST
Various nests collected over the span of 2 years have been used to research the use of plastics and human waste within natural habitats. Each nest, belonging to a bird has it's own tragic story. They are a rare insight into a failing symbiotic relationship between human and 'Other'
BEARSUIT
The storyteller.
Originally created in 2018 this handmade suit has been brought to life in film, live performances and sculpture.
Bearsuit, in person.