Collage - 2D/3D

Timeline installation - images 1 and 2

Timeline worked with expressions of geological layering and spatial dispersal. Fragmented newspaper images were used to represent the stories and adverts they accompanied, all taken from newspapers on a single day. Only a small proportion of the fragments for each image were selected, reflecting the survival and dispersal of fossil remains. Each story was made into a cluster - in 2d or 3d - and the clusters were made into groups, suspended in space. The patterns of the suspended fragments and clusters were a nod to the spatial patterns of buried fossil remains. They played with the concept that, just like the fossil remains, the newspaper stories had randomly become neighbours, permanently connected in time and space simply by being selected for publication on a particular day, just as the fossils had settled deep into the earth, in random groupings, permanently connected with other lives across time.

Monuments and Fragments prints - images 3 and 4

This limited edition series of prints are produced from collages in which small geometric fragments of magazine images are built up into larger abstract forms. The work looks at relationships of mass and void, focusing both on the details that make up the mass and the overall patterns they become part of. They reflect abstract lines of form found in everyday life, such as cities or coastlines and viewed at a distance, which initially appear as a thin granular line running across the landscape, then reveal more and more complex layers of individual forms when looked at closely.   In a similar way each collage fragment contains a glimpse of the larger image it came from, along with its connected story, so that while each collage has it own form, it is also evident that it is made of many images and stories.

The Monuments and Fragments series developed from Tideline, an installation in 2008, in which a line of tiny geometric fragments ran around a room in an unbroken line. The line divided the space into above and below, providing a continually changing set of forms as the viewer moved along it.

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