Degree Show Collection
Project Type:
Installation, Sculpture, Photography, Sound, Site-Specific
Date:
June 2024
Scale:
Various
ECA Degree Show 2024.
I am extremely grateful to have received the Helen A Rose Bequest 2024 for my degree show work.
If I could do it again, it wouldn't resemble this at all! But that's ok and I'm glad I managed to pull off what I did, with thanks to the wonderful technicians, tutors, friends and family who helped along the way.
Materials:
Various
Location:
Edinburgh College of Art
Don't Let the Cat Out
Digital Photography, Printed Paper, Wallpaper Paste, Plastic Placemat (found object), Screws
4.4m x 2.3m
This piece was wallpapered directly onto the rooms studio walls following suggestion that I might find the image further-censored or removed by university management following the show opening.
The original piece is a reclamation of my naked image, but in this staging the title nods to difficulties faced when discussing showing the image uncensored, where it was indicated that I may have to prove I was of "sound mind" in order to have the work approved.
It is worth noting that uncensored penis has been in the show many times before, my tutors didn't believe labia had.
Rent to Buy (Wood Pigeons) / Dads House
Sublimation Printed Synthetic Fabric, Plastic Tent Frame, Audio and Sound System, Lighting
1.1m x 0.8m x 1.2m
Edited field recording 19:26
For the degree show presentation of this piece I had a speaker and light coming from within the tent.
Installed in Leeds at my childhood home
Installed in Leeds at my childhood home
Curtains/Drapes & Chimney
Vinyl, Cream Cleaner, Emulsion Paint
In discussion with the two other graduates in my grad-show room, we decided to pursue a plan for an immersive space with elements of site-specific installation, changing the room in keeping with the distance we felt from the institution of the University of Edinburgh.
For my part I chose to follow the symbol of my original childhood wendy house, visible behind me in my big self-portrait on the wall, and change parts of the space to imagine walking into a room-sized version of the tent.
Cartoon pink vinyl curtains were transplanted onto ECA's historic windows, and for our rooms entrance-way I installed a yellow filter on the light along with a few coats of bright yellow paint, to reflect the yellow chimney of the wendy house which we often turned on its side and used as a entrance tunnel as children.
Extra Bits; promo, text, room dressing
Text, Business Cards, Vinyl, Various Lighting, Gravel
Exhibition text is very important to me to contextualise work and improve accessibility in the arts. I don’t believe in mysticism as art practice, which feeds dual fascist objectives of making the work readable only by a select elite "well-educated" few & of turning the masses of normal people away from art as a cultural medium altogether.
I regret the floor gravel.
