NEN

'I'm a serial sad plant adopter'

All sad plants deserve a loving home, all sad homes deserve a loving plants : ) I have an addiction for adopting reduced and sad looking plants.

'Mind holds no answers'

Film installation exploring both the malleability of the human mind and our connection with nature, as well as attempting to transport physical aspects of nature into the space.

'Dismantled bannister no.1'

Dismantling and deconstructing an everyday object. Stripping away all function to focus solely on its form and presence within a space.

'Altar to a perception of self'

Drawing on varying funeral traditions from across the world as well as the transformative processes visable within nature, a series of portable altars were constructed using negative or repressed aspects of my persona.

'108'

Explores the use of altar stones to metaphorically sacrifice negative or erosive aspects of my own psyche, which were unconsciously generated over the duration of the project.

'Aether'

An ambiguous form of sculptural sketchbook representing the reoccurring patterns and forms of the physical world. The piece then paradoxically became the final works of the project.

'Vessel to an ancient mariner'

The body of work examines and reflects upon the story of the Burniston body, a unidentified mariner who was thought to of derived from a Swedish brig, wrecked due to the great storm of 1880 in Scarborough. 

'Transposed into a talisman of death'

This body of work explored the use of screen printing in response to the cataclysmic situation in Syria.