Inspired by a decommissioned railway carriage – its conversion from transport to home to workshop. Its journey and its final resting place.
Sleeper won the 'Best Colour Award' at the Hampstead Summer Festival Art Fair and was included in the NOHAT Woman Shall Inherit The Earth – Female visions of Apocalypse, Utopia & Dystopia exhibition at The Panacea Museum, Bedford, and is available to view at the Balcony studio.
'Sleeper'
Mixed media on wood, 2018
Acquired by my Great Grandparents for conversion into a family home at the end of World War 2, the railway carriage was later repurposed into a workshop (Grandad’s shed) and remains today a place of tool working, building and creating by a fourth generation. Inspired by the carriage’s aesthetic, and driven by memories and historic references, the fluidity and application of the paint and wooden painting surface symbolises the passage of time and transformation, and the scale (each panel measures 5” x 7”) is inspired by Alberto Giacometti “By doing something ½ cm high, you are more likely to get a sense of the universe than if you try to do the sky.”
Sleeper is part of a much wider study of personal identity.
