Two sketches from a series of screen prints in-progress, alluding to episodes of confusion within intergenerational relationships of dependency. These, and other recent works, reference contiguous experiences of early motherhood and looking after my mother towards the end of her life. This series of text 'drawings' holds scattered details from her last three months, when she was bed-bound with Parkinson’s dementia.
self-seed (restless legs), 2024.
Oil paint, gesso, plywood.
764 x 552 mm
storage (dressing), 2024.
Worn silk blouse, pocket, spray paint, plywood.
850 x 435 x 45mm
Instants in Withdrawing, January 2023, Drawing Room, London
A performative talk for the Drawing Research Forum in which a series of dragged flatbed scans and collaged images of drawings I made in near darkness of my mother at the end of her life were companioned by a fragmented monologue on observational practices, John Berger's essay and TV programme about coffin-drawing he made of his father, and texts by Claudia Rankine, Griselda Pollock, and Lisa Barraitser on looking and time.
erratic shoes (to keep), 2023
Ink, paper, card.
205 x 193mm
storage (stripes / holes), 2023
Worn blouse plackets, watercolour, airbrush ink, fabric, paper, plywood.
850 x 435 x 45mm
Text and collage from an ongoing study in degenerating eyesight, diagnostic grids, mothering, dementia, and dreams.
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