Horse (Sirens)

Horse (Sirens)- a short film 

Synopsis

A found fragment of Alla Nazimove dancing in Salome (1922) was the starting point of this collaboration with dancer Ino Riga. HORSE (WHISKEY) looks at the act of storytelling, performance and recalled experience. Ostensibly a pas de deux, it narrates a navigation of the self, the fragmentation of memory and time travel from past and present.

Isadora

 

 

No verified record of dancer Isadora Duncan exists - only her words. 

An unverified fragment of film of a woman dancing in front of the sea is presented

as Isadora dancing on the Parthenon. 

Isadora is an exploration of time and place.

Found film shows a fictional place presented as the Parthenon, a random temple sets the scene : a blurring of reality. In the film the narrator's voice changes gender as a chorus using words from the diary of Isadora: her memory describes an experience of what Freud later calls Derealisation, recalled during his own transcendent experience visiting the Parthenon.  Transfixed by the power of the image and the disconnect from reality, her words fragile from the time of the grand tour where the European took the place as their own.

Isadora was the jury's selection for the 2021 Mayfair Art Weekend Showreel and is currently part of the exhibition Wanderlust/All passports organised by Artefact in the Heinrich Schleiman Melas mansion, 

Athens 17th October - 17th November 2024

The Europeans (shipwreck) Series Work on paper 2017-2019

                                            Head study 1 The Europeans
Ink on Somerset 300gsm
50cm x 70 cm

 Head study 2 The Europeans
Ink on Somerset 300gsm
50cm x 70 cm

Head study 2 The Europeans
Ink on Somerset 300gsm
50cm x 70 cm

 

Head study 2 The Europeans
Ink on Somerset 300gsm
50cm x 70 cm

study The europeans 
silkscreen and mixed media on paper
80cm x 60cm
A0 Somerset 300gsm

study field of dreamers

monotype and oil on paper 

70 x 50 cm

study

The Swimmer
Monotype/ mixed media on paper 
  84cm x 118cm

Detail 

Out at sea

 Monotype/mixed media on paper 
  84cm x 118c

Out at sea II
Monotype/ mixed media on paper   
84cm x 118cm 

The Swimmer 
Monotype/ mixed media on paper 
  84cm x 118cm

The Swimmer - detail
Monotype/  mixed media on paper 
 84cm x 118cm

lost at sea - rafters

rafters
oil mixed media on paper
60cm x 75cm

lost at sea 2
oil mixed media on paper
60cm x 75cm

Early Paintings

The Space Within 1990, Oil on canvas, 240cm x 165cm



The Journey, 1990, Oil on canvas, 240cm x 177cm

The Veil 1990, Oil on canvas, 240cm x 201cm

Detail The Veil

The Revelation 1990, Oil on canvas, 240cm x 162cm

Detail The Revelation

Driving 1990, Oil on Canvas, 240cm x 207cm

Detail Driving

Prints

Ariadne Unique Etching on Velin Arche 300gsm 150cm x 45cm


Detail


Sebastian Unique Etching on Velin Arch 150cm x 45cm


Detail


Chirico Unique Etching on Velin Arch 150cm x 45cm


Detail



The Lovers Unique Etching on Velin Arch 300gsm 150cm x 45cm


Detail


Figure I Unique Etching on Velin Arch 150cm x 45cm



Detail



Figure II Unique Etching on Velin Arch 150cm x 45cm







Figure III Unique Etching on Velin Arch 150cm x 45cm


Detail


Woman I Unique Stone Lithograph on Khadi 180cm x 50cm

Detail

Woman II Unique Stone Lithograph on Indian handmade paper

Lost Pictures 2009 Drawings on metal and mixed media

Work statement – Lost PicturesThe drawings and paintings represent a trace, a mark of an event that is past and present - appearing and disappearing. Through the use of found photographic material, painting referencing or literally covered with the mark of the hand I look at the space in between these two realities, the mark made in the present, and the photographic.
Investigating how representation reproduces the other as the same, I am looking for the blind spot in the visual real that might reveal a way to redesign representational real. I am also looking at memory, using images accidentally found that hold a personal resonance for me, and in this way offer a glimpse to recapture something lost.
The act of the hand re-connects with the anonymity of the found image. The existence of the two together create this state that interests me, a fragility of being and non-being. The trace of something left from before against a non-place.

Gateway

Graphite on cut and folded Aluminium

Log Cabin Graphite on cut & folded AluminiumLog Cabin II Graphite on cut & folded Aluminium