‘deletion’
letterpress card and cloth, each page 12 x 15 cm, 2002

Book Forms

My work explores some of the qualities of the ‘book’. These book structures and forms analyse the notion of repeat through the unity of paper and metal. I use paper and card to convey visual information rather than readable text and the metal enables this information to exist in three dimensions.
Skyscrapers and cityscapes supply the basis for the structural and surface inspiration for my work, echoing repeating forms as part of a building and through a city. On initial viewing the pieces exude a sense of fragility, the reality being that the work requires physical engagement, to be touched, moved, re-arranged.
During 2003 I have produced some pieces working in collaboration with poet Rupert Mallin. I found the structural layout of Ruperts’ works to be of particular inspiration and we have produced a joint book called ‘confidence’.

‘clip’
photo-etched stainless steel, components clip on to one another,
each component 3.5 x 24 x 2 cm, 2002