Headboard in Walnut Frame
Headboard Panel made of scagliola – the Italian craft of manipulating plaster for mock marble architectural inlays.
Visitors disrupt hundreds of hanging fragile porcelainesque forms as they walk through the installation. Over the course of the exhibition threads tangled and shoes crunched over crumbling fragments. Selfhood of the little hanging forms was no longer discernible as a collective mass gathered, grounded …
I made these scagliola panels in situ for a curved cupboard area fitting underneath a mezzanine in our main living room. I designed the sliding slatted doors to hide the fridge on the kitchen side and for music gear to sit into a niche lined …
These gouache paintings started as quick preparatory designs for scagliola tiles and panels, although in practice, when made into scagliola pieces, the surface patterns differ wildly from the original sketches. The process of manipulating the pigmented plaster mix is intentionally loose, uncontrolled and open-ended. Tacit …
This piece of scagliola was designed to hang without a frame, directly on the wall in Nabil’s new elegant flat.
This was made to celebrate the wedding of Gesine and Carlos in Pachuca, Mexico – a city in Hidalgo state known for its mining and Cornish influenced ‘pastes’.
Scagliola panel made for friends in Berlin incorporating a fragment of the Berlin wall. It is framed with an open back so that both sides are visible and can also be hung with the reverse on show.
Made for Jessica and Jeremy with Cotswolds stone embedded. Colour direction taken from the quaint paintwork in their local train station.
Gouache on various uncoated paper types, marbled using size made from carragheen moss (a seaweed found off the west coast of Ireland).