Tournament of the Dirty Nurse

2006

300 x 300 x 220cms

steel, canvas, coir rope, wood

Sculptural Performances:

#Installation on a peak in the Brecon Beacons, South Wales.

#AirLifted by Seaking Mk4 Commando Helicopter during Military excercise.

#Installed in the Former Sierra Leone Embassy London.

# Installation 846 Commando Helicopter Squadron Hanger

'I have wallowed, I have washed--the world
Is flesh and shadow--I have had my day.
The dirty nurse, Experience, in her kind
Hath fouled me'

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King, The Last Tournament

Theatre (Shouting with a Little Stick)

2011

275cms x 150cms x 150cms

Kevlar, carbon fibre, aluminium, steel, wood, limestone, 'guards tunic' wool felt, polyester canvas, nylon

Performance / ManoeuvreImages - Install afloat on a sink hole Brecon Beacons

Exhibition Images : Installed & Flyposters

2007

 86cms x 100cms x 264cms

Polyester canvas, wood, steel acrylic, aqua-lung apparatus:

Performance / manoeuvre cave dive in White Lady Hole , South Wales

Maiden Voyage 2007 Film

'Life Net'

2021

Steel, Rip-Stop fabric, canvas, elastic, cord, webbing, pins, foam, eyelets.

180cms x 352cms x 15cms

Based on survival equipment deployed by fire crews to rescue people leaping from burning buildings. Life Net is printed with all the Conditions, Disorders and Problems our species recognises. Each condition is printed in alphabetical order as listed in the ‘Psychiatrists Bible’ DSM-5. and destined to be absent from any future rock record.

The sculpture rests against cliffs formed from the skeletal remains of life forms laid down 89 million years ago, prior to the last great Mass Extinction in deep oceans far from land, now settled by angry Gulls on Seaford Head, England

Germs Of Empire

2016

75 x 100 x 75 cms

Discarded bones from salt beef & salt pork production at the Royal Navy's primary Victualling Yard Deptford London 1513-1961, recovered from River Thames & marked with warship names in Indian Ink on paraloid B72. composite armature, cord.

Hanging From Your Daisy Chain

2007

190cms x 120cms x 120cms

canvas, childrens climbing frame, cord, military ceremonial uniform red baize

‘Interloper’ [Germs of Empire]
2018
210 x 56 x 20cms
Canvas printed with ‘Germs of Empire’, surf board (a beloved one!!)

‘Erebus’ [Germs of Empire]
2017
150 x 100 x 10 cms
Canvas (printed with artwork 'Germs of Empire' drawing), birch wood, steel, rope, silicone. Pattern appropriated from Neil Robertson canvas stretcher [ designed for difficult rescue situations when a casualty requires lowering or lifting through small access hatches and compact spaces, construction possible with materials commonly found on ships ].

Terror [Germs of Empire]
2017
170 x 55 x 30cms
Canvas printed with ‘Germs of Empire’ Military Asnes Telemark Skis, Poles and Litter kit.

Ginnungagap
2014
1056 x 700 mm

C-Type Mounted on Aluminium

Performance / manoeuvre image: Voyage across the Triassic/Jurassic mass extinction horizon

327cms x 370cms x 121cms

Aircrew liferaft, wood, steel, canvas, bitumen, ripstop, nylon, Seagull engine, tape, polystyrene, polyurethane, copper and rock ballast /samples collected onsite (St.Audries Bay, Somerset, UK ) on the execution of its voyage across the Triassic/Jurassic mass extinction horizon.

Sculpture registered on the British Ship Registry - Number SSR159875

#Ginnungagap is the vast, primordial void where creation begins. It is also the dark abyss in which the world collapses at its end, during Ragnarök [Doom of the Gods]. These Norse beliefs are cyclical, for out of this destruction, this Ginnungagap, the cosmos is subsequently reborn. A cycle mirrored in the phases of living things, the moon, the seasons, night and day, and the flourishing of life after mass extinctions.

 Ginnungagap   [sculpture - exhibition installation photos: Andrew Meredith] 2014

'Ninja Rock Cycle'

2014

120 cms x 240 cms x 20 cms.

Walnut frames, pin board, military uniform wool fabric

Beach found Porcelain Spark Plug Insulators from military aircraft and vehicles found in an eroding coastal former WW2 landfill Reykjavik, Iceland

‘DeadHouse’ [ High Arctic ]

2022

Variable Dimensions 8m x 4m x 4m inflated.

Aircrew liferaft, canvas, wool felt, canvas, rock sample ballast, air balloon, climbing rope, pulleys, anchors, clips. 4 stroke leaf blower, barquentine sailing ship.

‘Deadhouse’ is a sculpture in the guise of a High Arctic expedition to cross ‘The Great Dying’ geological horizon. It takes the form of a modified pilot’s life-raft suspended from an air balloon designed to cross the 251 million year old line of mass extinction exposed in the sea cliffs of Spitsbergen. The equipment endeavouring to provide escape from the dying Permian world into reborn Triassic world… This biotic crisis was the worst of 5 mass extinctions that killed off 90% of life on earth. Perhaps nodding to the vulnerability of species this artwork was postponed twice due to the Covid 19 pandemic.

Deadhouse:- is a place for the temporary reception and exposure of dead bodies. They were common before the mid-20th century in Northern climates where in the winter frozen ground made grave excavation difficult or impossible.

Ice Sculpture 1h

2013

200cms x 200cms

Polystyrene fibre glass

Sculptural installation in Brecon Beacons glacial valley - proposal for a larger scale blimp installation

Mociuaquetzque

2005

110 cms: x132 cms: x 69 cms

Kevla, canvas, lead, plastic, wood & steel, cast form of 8 month pregnant woman

mociuaquetzque :- women who died in child birth, in Aztec culture these women were equated to the fallen warrior on a battle field. Their spirits [Cihuateteoh / Divine Women] were much feared and accompany the sun as it sets in the west.

‘Cihuateteo’
2020 [2007]
Kevla, cast form of pregnant woman [eight months with Twins], United Nations Uniform cotton drill & badge, metal fastenings, webbing, foam, cotton thread.

70cms x 45cms x 48cms

Images of Bomb Disposal Equipment for a 8 month pregnant woman with and with out United Nations Blue uniform cover

The Cihuateteo “Divine Women” Were the Aztec spirits of human women who died in childbirth, which was considered a form of battle, and its victims were honoured as fallen warriors.

Omm Pah Pah [i]

2009

120cms x 80cms x 196cms

Herculite, canvas, steel, linseed oil, wood & nails

Omm Pah Pah [ii]

2009

130cms x 130cms x 112cms

wood, steel, linseed oil lead, Herculite, scrim & uniform horse hair plume

Omm Pah Pah [iii]

2009

Variable

Blues + Royals Uniform, canvas, nails, uniform wool red baize,

Yeehaa

2009 [1945]

313cms x 358cms x 40cms

US GI's burial flag - steel, plywood fastenings webbing & cord linseed oil:

Photo (complete sculpture) : Jason Joyce

NOK letter

1945

A5

Reverse of letter posted with burial flag to Next of Kin, stained by the stars of the flag

Figure Head Series ‘ 'Kiss me, Hardy'’

2025

186cms x 72cms x 50cms

Wood, Paint

Blood Sweat & Freckles

2007

530cms x 320cms x12cms

steel, plywood, White Ensign -Battle Ensign.

Sculpture:

‘Sabrina’

2019

Canvas, inflatable swan, wendy house, para cord, Navigation lights, drawing printed on silk,

181cm (L)x 189cm(w)x170cm(h)

Sculpture registered on the British Ship Registry - Number SSR173593

Installation: Production Still

‘Sabrina’ [The Lost island Sabrina, near São Miguel, Azores]

2019

Apotheosis of a Tar

2010

160cms x 90cms x 50cms

pvc. canvas, wood, tar, polyurethane, para cord, canvas: 

Performance / Manoeuvre - sea trials Portland, UK

Sculpture registered on the British Ship Registry - Number SSR152832

Skíðblaðnir

2014

120cms x 33cms x 18cms [closed] 120cms x 16cms x 150cms [open]

canvas drawings, ripstop canvas, steel, rope, eyelets

Sculpture registered on the British Ship Registry - Number SSR156722

 #Skíðblaðnir is the best of ships in Norse mythology, it was owned by the god Freyr and attributed to the magic of Odin. Skíðblaðnir is the finest ship and the most ingeniously created, when not neededit had the ability to be folded up—as cloth may be—and stowed into one's pocket.

2017

243cms x 50cms x 40cms

Canvas, cord, ceremonial tunic [Fleet Air Arm pilot] cotton webbing, steel, fasteners, flag pole.

Clipper Maid of the Seas

2011

Fabric dimensions 747 x 103 Pole height 180cms

flag weave polyester, canvas,wood toggle, flagpole

The expression “The Whole Nine Yards” comes from the fact that a large man’s kilt is made of a nine-yard long piece of tartan material. This kilt is made from a Libyan flag to the dimensions of the Boeing 747, PanAm flight 103 named 'Clipper Maid of the Seas' which was blown up over Lockerbie on 21 Dec 1988

2015
243cms x 50cms x 40cms

Canvas, para-cord, ceremonial tunic [Princess of Wales Own Regiment Circa 1800] cotton webbing, steel, fasteners, flag pole.

2020

Rifle Case (Peli), 1917 War Department Union Flag, White Cotton thread,

1366mm x 419mm x 170mm

During the Great War the First Sea Lord complained that submarines were "underhanded, unfair, and damned un-English” and that submariners should be hung as pirates!!!! With that in in true naval fashion the boats started flying The Jolly Roger as they returned to port, home made and marked up with symbol illustrating their operational achievements.

“Operation Holocene”

2020

Flag weave polyester, canvas, Engerfield Clips, cotton thread

150cms x 110cms tbc.

Flying the flag for our species, and the global extinction of large animals coinciding with our migration into different continents as the ice caps receded. sic. Late Quaternary megafauna extinction, Holocene Extinction. Featuring

Smilodon Fatalis - N.Ameican saber-tooth tiger

Equus hemionus hydruntinus - European Wild Ass

Sahul [Austrailia]- Genyornis - bird

Japanese Sea Lion

Glyptodon - Armadillo

North Asian Woolly Mammoth

Giant Slooth Lemur Archaeoindris fontoynonti ....... Babakotia radofilai, Palaeontology

Palaeopropithecidae

“There Is Nothing Intelligent To Say About A Massacre”

2020

Flag weave polyester, canvas, Engerfield Clips,

88cms x 166cms

Flag marks the cull up of 17 million mink / ferrets in Denmark during the corona pandemic. The Title comes from quote by Kurt Vonnegut in ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’

“A Fool Has Paradise”

2020

Flag weave polyester, canvas, Engerfield Clips, Royal Navy signal flag [Negative], cotton thread

150cms x 110cms

Flag marks 2020, Title derived from a Thomas Fuller Quote and

“Don’t Care Bear”

2022

Flag weave polyester, canvas, Engerfield Clips,

150cms x 110cms tbc.

“Don’t Care Bear” [ Pennant ] Flying above Пирами́да / Pyramiden , An abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on Arctic Island of Spitsbergen in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard

‘Crossing the T’

2019

Rifle Case (Peli), Royal Navy Battle Ensign, nylon mesh, para cord.

1366mm x 419mm x170mm

Installation:

‘Crossing the T’ [Cape Trafalgar, of Los Caños de Meca]

2019

Royal Navy Battle Ensign

11’ 6” x 5’ 6” variable

Líf + Lífþrasir

2021

H 120cms x W 240cms x D20cms @ 16kg

production documentation:- Líf + Lífþrasir crossing the horizon dividing the dying Cretaceous world and the reborn Paleogene.

Love Island Double Heart Inflatable, Military grade survival equipment fabric,

fasteners, cords, bespoke mini signal flags, survival knife, water reservoir, Rock Sequence Paleogene Mass Extinction,

the complete works of William Shakespeare, the Bible and Luxury item,

In cyclical Norse mythology whilst ‘Ask + Embla’ were the first two humans, created by the gods. ‘Líf + Lífþrasir’ were the only two humans designated as sole human survivors after Ragnarok, the battle at the end of the world.

The Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary / K–Pg Mass Extinction Horizon

66 million years ago a 10-15 mile wide asteroid hit the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico at Chicxulub. The resultant shock waves, tsunami and ejected vaporised seafloor and impactor caused immediate and long term effects on the climate and food chain. This was the most recent and most rapid of the big five mass extinctions. The consequential impact winter exterminated 70% of all life on earth notoriously including the dinosaurs except for birds.

Iridium anomaly

Iridium is a dense metal common to earth, however due to its mass it sank to the planets core whilst our world was in a primordial state and still molten. The rare Iridium we find in the earths crust today has all been delivered by asteroids, meteoroids and comets. It is frequently used by industry in spark-plugs, pen nibs and scientific equipment due to its high melting point and corrosion resistance. Ironically finding its way back into space via the spacecraft Voyager, Viking, Pioneer, Cassini, Galileo and New Horizons. In the aftermath of the Chicxulub impact and thin layer of the meteorite’s iridium settled on the earths surface across the globe. This strata of more common than usual iridium is an anomaly that clearly identifies across the globe the geological moment of mass extinction. It is particularly prominent in the clay cliffs of Stevns Klint in Denmark in what was a calm and shallow sea.

MORAL INJURY

‘Moral Injury’

2020 [Covid 19 lockdown artwork ongoing]


Conceptualised as Moral Distress in the 1980’s with regard to healthcare professionals, the study soon turned its attention to combat veterans and redefined the condition as 'Moral Injury’ . It emphasizes the psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual aspects of trauma, especially with regard to soldiers who have witnessed or perpetrated an act in combat that transgresses their deeply held moral beliefs and expectations. Covid 19 has shone a light on our species, revealing just how far and how little we have come.

This series of work is a 'work in progress’ starting with the last exhibition I saw before lock down at The British Museum. I was looking for inspiration to make some clothing for a sailing trip in the Arctic on an Art+Science residency in June 2020. Needless to say lockdown postponed the expedition till June 2022, so it is still a going concern…. failing to get tickets for the last day of the Troy exhibition I still found what I was looking for; a beautiful ‘Seal-Gut Parka’ made by Inuit Flora Nanuk in the 1980’s to pick berries. The lockdown also severed by primary source of income and social interaton, which was creating the scenery for photoshoots. An artists life is typically a solitary pursuit and besides the economic stress, home-schooling, drinking vast amounts of tequila and listening to the most depressing news-cycle ever broadcast lockdown was business as ususal, even a welcome period of production and reflection. But as a loner, working with a crew on a photoshoots gives me the sense of belonging and the teamspirit I nead to contrast with my isolation and which I miss so much from my former military carear.

This was my starting point.

Cotton Canvas, Thread

i - Canvas Pattern Inuit Parker

Gold parachute ripstop, printed drawing on cotton drill, felt
i - Gold Inuit Parker [XL]

ii - Canvas + Felt Thia Fishermans Pants

Bag sent to NHS [XL]
Bright Blue Cotton Drill, Printed flag fabric, webbing
i - prototype NHS patern scrubs [XL]
ii - Set of Scrubs and Laundery Bag sent to NHS [XL]
iii - Set of Scrubs and Laundery Bag sent to NHS [XL]
iv - modified scrubs sealgut parker [XL]

Figure Head Series 'Brace Brace Brace'

2025

186cms x 130cms x 130cms

Paint palettes, ‘NATO Standard Emergency Unicorn’

Black Knight Squared Away

2008

174cms x 70cms x 51cms

ceremonial uniform [Grenadier Guards] steel, glass, canvas, fastenings & cord

Bedlam

2004

185cms x 60cms x 50cms

Grenadier Guardsman's tunic, canvas, webbing, d-rings, eyelets

Bop It

2015

40cms x 40cms x 190cms

Ceremonial uniform [Coldstream Guards Drummer], steel, canvas, fastenings & cord

Monogenesis [ work in progress ]

2011

variable

Steel, case, jack, canvas, pvc canvas, dyeline transfer drawings,

2014

1056 x 700 mm

C-Type Mounted on Aluminium

Expedition to distill  Cider made from the fruit of The Fall using thermo - volcanic heat at the Gates of Hell, Mount Hekla Iceland. [see artwork 'Diaspora' 2008 for the source of the forbidden Fruit cider]

Moonshine Suit

2014

1980mm x 305mm x 305mm

Bespoke heat resistant personal volcanic thermo-distillation equipment,

Diaspora

2008

1 litre cider (edition)

Malus Seversii apple cider, peli-case, 1 litre scientific grade flask

Malus Seversii apples - hand picked, pressed and fermented by the artist in bespoke equipment. The apples are the genetic father of all apples and grow wild in the foothills of the Tien Shan mountains Kazakhstan.

The apples were harvested in the proximity of Semipalatinsk Test Site (Semipalatinsk-21 / "The Polygon") marked by a black panel on the map. This site was the primary testing venue for the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons. The two isotopes [Caesium-137 & Strontium-90]  identified along with Malus Seversii on the Diaspora bottle label are not found naturally. They are only released through nuclear fission and contaminate all living things through absorption. 

Performance / manoeuvre images apple harvesting East Kazakhstan.

Performance / manoeuvre cider making with Malus Seversii apples in bespoke equipment Bow East London.

Diaspora 2008 Press

Diaspora 2008 Briefing Map

Diaspora 2008 Fridge full of cider

Square Rig Restraint

2007

174cms x 70cms x 51cms

RN tunic, canvas fastenings, cord, steel, glass

Photos: Jason Joyce

Bride

2010

180cms x70cms x130cms

canvas, para-cord, felt, ceremonial tunic (Royal Horse Artillery), red 'guardsman uniform' wool baize.

Crossing the Line

2007

174cms x 70cms x 51cms

ceremonial uniform, steel, glass, canvas, fastenings & cord

Mysin

2005

45cms x 30cms x 2cms

lead, porcelain.

The title references Meißen / Meissen porcelain whilst the map relief is the area of Dresden destroyed in WW2 by 4 Anglo/American bombing raids.

Heir Shirt

2004

160cms x 50cms x 30cms

WWII German Military Tunic, paper,  human hair, hanger, steal, concrete

Plate Rack

2005

50 x 55 x 28cms

Lead, canvas, wood, rope, steel, leather 

The title references its sister sculpture 'Mysin' also the main bombing raid on `dresden by Anglo/American aircraft in WW2 / christened Operation Plate Rack

2016

84 cms x 95 cms x 12 cms

Canvas, printed canvas, inflatable lining, volcanic rock ballast from Stromboli

Performance:

Sculpture installed floating above fault line where the African tectonic plate is subducted under the Eurasian plate at Stromboli in Tyrrhenian Sea

Faith Hope & Charity

2011

100cms x 25cms x 90cms

lead, wood, ceremonial uniform wool baize, clips , pin board.

‘The First and Last’

2016

87 cms x 95 cms x 12 cms

Canvas, Signal flags, printed canvas, wood, brass flag pole fittings

Performance :

Sculpture installed on sumit of Mt. Vulcano in Tyrrhenian Sea

Ceremonial flag pole strung with prayer flag ensigns of God, emoji & the Black Flag at the foundry of Vulcan

Isaiah 44:6 (Old Testament) —
“I am the first and I am the last [ אמת ]; besides me there is no god.”

Revelation 22:13 (New Testament) —
“I am the Alpha and the Omega [ ΑΩ], the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”
(spoken by Jesus in Christian interpretation)

Surah Al-Hadid (57:3) the Qur’an
“He is the First and the Last, [ الأول†الأخر ] the Ascendant and the Intimate, and He is, of all things, Knowing.

Branded

2003

120cms x 45cms x 45cms

Branding iron - bronze, steel, wood

Branding

2003

Performance ;  C-Type print

‘Sucking Chest Wound’

2009

140cms x 140cms x 42cms

ceremonial uniform [Blues & Royals], lead, canvas, nails

Male Bag

2008

45cms x 45cms variable

canvas , lead,

Fears in Solitude

2004

850mm x 136mm

Posted lead postcards of concrete 'sand castles' text Colleridge

Sand Pillbox

2004

190cms x210cms x 320cms

sand, wood, wing nuts & bolts, canvas

Cerebral Defense

2002

30cms x 30cms x 15cms

foam board, paint , filler

Locus Amoenus Device [ airborne ]

2013

20cms x 12cms x variable

herculite, model materials, plastic vaginal speculumn, fibreglass, para cord, ripstop fabric, camera, canvas, anchors

Locus Amoenus Device [ subterranean ]

2013

variable

model materials, plastic vaginal speculumns

Locus Amoenus Device [ molecular/alchol ]

2013

variable

model materials, plastic vaginal speculumns

locus amoenus:- A is usually a beautiful, shady lawn or open woodland, or a group of idyllic islands, sometimes with connotations of Eden

A formulaic concept of an idealised earthly paradise, often with three elements trees / grass / water andremote place it might function as a landscape of the mind

Boyscouts Out of Horses Hooves

2006

50cms x 85cms x 25cms

Lead. canvas, cord sisal

Locus Amoenus Fault [ Vaynor ]

2013

70cms x 60cms x 60cms (in case)

herculite, model materials, pelicase

Installation photo:- Gorge in Vaynor Brecon Beacons, S.W. Wales

locus amoenus:- A is usually a beautiful, shady lawn or open woodland, or a group of idyllic islands, sometimes with connotations of Eden

A formulaic concept of an idealised earthly paradise, often with three elements trees / grass / water andremote place it might function as a landscape of the mind

Trinity

2002

130cmsx130cms x 200cms

Projector, steel, Canvas, Trinity House Slide Archive

Installation on the River Thames @ Trinity Buoy Wharf

Fat Bitch

2003

175cms x175cms x 185cms

Beef fat, zinc, plastic,wood

Fat Boot

2002

13cms x 30cms x 32cms

Beef Fat (freezer conditioning)

Fat Sculpture No 4 (wall mounted & freestanding)

2003

variable

Beef Fat , fridge mechanism, leather, forceps

Water Carrier

2003

variable

Lead, rope, Plastic

Installation on the River Thames