Face Value: portraits from Wrenn School Northants and Charterhouse, Surrey 2002 - 2004

 

 

Face Value Peterborough  Museum and Art gallery 2002 

 

 

Dayne Year 8 : Face Value series

oil on canvas, 2003

Exhibited at the BP Portrait Awards, NPG, and Future Face, Science museum, London 2004 

 

 

                                        Installation view . Solo show Watts Gallery 2008 .

Future Face Science Museum, London 

Installation view 2004

 

 

Wrenn Portrait : Face Value series

oil on canvas, 2003

 

 

Dan : Face Value series

oil on canvas, 2004

 

 

Head Boy/Girl and addition from Wrenn

oil on board, 2005

 

Wrenn pupil  Year 8 : Face Value series

oil on canvas, 2003

 

Charterhouse pupil yr 12 Face Value

oil on board, 2005

 

 

 

Workshop at Wrenn school, Northants.

Head Boy Head Girl series, Charterhouse 2005 - 2019

 

 

Installation view: Head boy Head girl Woking Lightbox 2019

 

 

Head Boy Head Girl 2015

oil on canvas 120 x 100

 

Head Boy Head Girl 2018

oil on linen 60 x 120cm  

 

Head Boy/Girl 2018

oil on linen 100 x 80cm  

 

Private and State School Spaces

 

 

Wrenn Portrait - at the desk 

watercolour, acrylic,graphite on paper, 2002

Wrenn corridor  

oil on canvas 150 x 100cm, 2004

 

Charterhouse Corridor / Cloisters   

oil on canvas 150 x 100cm, 2005

Charterhouse suspended Big Ground    

oil on canvas 150 x 100cm, 2006

Charterhouse Cloisters: assembly   

oil on canvas 150 x 100cm, 2016

Early Family Portraits 1999 - 2002

Joe Boy

oil on MDF, 1999

exhibited at the BP Portrait Awards, NPG

 

Father/Son

oil on MDF, 2001

exhibited at the BP Portrait Awards, NPG

 

Modern Suburban Family portrait after Jan Van Eyck 'Arnolfini Marriage'

oil on canvas, 2000

150 x 110cm

 

The Changeling 2008 - 2025

 

 

Changeling 2

oil on canvas

122 x 90cm 

1st prize BP portrait award NPG 2009

 

Changelings installation view Cadogan Contemporary, London 2013

 

 

Changeling : relflexive  

oil on linen

2025

 

 

Contact

oil on canvas 2012

 

 

 

Codogan Contemporary, London show installation 2013

 

Changeling 1

oil on canvas , 2008

160 x 110cm 

Changeling 3

oil on canvas , 2010

160 x 110cm 

Changeling Upwards

oil on board, 2010

70 x 50cm 

Private Collection

 

 

 

Uncanny Likeness OVADA OXford 2009

 

 

Changeling: Fugative

oil on canvas , 2013 

70 x 50cm x 2 

exhibited at the Threadneedle, Prize Mall Galleries, London

Changeling: Snow

oil on canvas , 2010

160 x 110cm 

 

Changeling 5

oil on canvas , 2010

160 x 110cm 

 

Changeling :Levitate

oil on canvas , 20010

160 x 110cm 

Levitate study

oil on canvas , 2011

70 x 50cm

Private Collection 

Reach out

oil on canvas , 2011

70 x 50cm 

Private Collection

Dance 

oil on canvas, 2012

100 x 80cm 

Clap 

oil on canvas, 2012

100 x 80cm 

touch  

oil on canvas, 2012

100 x 80cm 

Clap tryptich  

oil on canvas, 2012

50 x 40cm each 

Gaze 

oil on board, 2012

74 x 110cm 

Reanimation 2 charcoal on paper

 

Animation developed from  archival photos of school pupils at Winchester College. An attempt to reanimate old images creates new ghostly cartoonish identities to the school boys.

Reanimation 1 charcoal on paper

 

Animation developed from  archival photos of school pupils at Charterhouse. An attempt to reanimate old images creates new ghostly cartoonish identities to the school boys. A score by old boy Vaughn Williams is added for melodrama

Rings: Unity Video 4 mins 2007-2009

dimensions variable

 

Exhibited at the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2007 and 53rd Venice Biennale with Celeste Prize 2009 

 

Rings reflects a refinement of my on going experimentation in automatic drawings produced by setting parameters of time, scale, format and drawing tools. The video records the action of my hand attempting to make a drawing, with the silver rings influencing movement and mark-making. The resulting silver deposits left on the surface trace my hands movement. The cropped format and recording in real time turn the whole action into the art object: the screen becomes the support and containing frame. As much as referencing Modernism's concerns with the refinement of form and content, I am just as interested in the references to marital rings, play and the creationist myth of god's hand creating the word - with his knuckles! Rings designed by Ruth Rignall (RCA)

 

 

Tics

The animation tracks the tics and sounds of a 6 year old autistic boy in an attempt to signify the exteme auditory and sensory experiences he may be going through