BOXES - Archive

These glass fronted boxes are typically forests crowded with birds, often owls or woodpeckers. Other boxes are full of moths but rather than being displayed in rows like a Victorian collection, the box is crammed with moths as if they are alive and trying to escape. There are also more reflective boxes such as Nightingale, which depicts a large expanse of dark blue night sky, at the base of the box stands a solitary house and high above on a branch, a single nightingale sings. The work for me seems to be about recreating a distant memory and I try to catch that mood or atmosphere. My work is also concerned with exploring the relationship between humans and nature, our impact on the landscape, how we alter it, control it, categorise and label it and even destroy it.

Here are just a few of the box works that I have made in the past.

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