Papering Over The Cracks
Installation at Nottingham Castle Museum
Installation commissioned by Nottingham Castle Museum for the touring Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition 'Street Art: Contemporary prints from the V&A'.
Over a cluster of tattered and worn hand painted posters laser lines are drawn and removed and drawn out again.
This mash-up of hi-tech and low tech references traditional paste-ups, fly postering, graffiti alongside the recent adoption of digital projection techniques utilised by activists and street artists.
The projected lines are drawn out and subsequently removed akin to the transitory nature and constant renewal of works in an outdoor urban setting. The machine is self-buffing, erasing what it has created to allow for new pieces to be made.
This was the original drawing to explain the idea to the museum.
Over the painted pieces, projected lines are drawn and erased. The projection runs for over an hour before it loops over again.
Some of the many paintings on paper that made up the piece.
The paintings varied in style and content.
Alongside the gallery commission I was also asked to create a new work for the outside of the gallery, in the form of a flower bed.
A walking burger in bloom perhaps will remind us that everything is 'grown' from dirt, from colourful pigments, fast food packaging and the fast food itself. Here a veggie burger is having a delightful trawl through a garden, mindful to deposit himself (and his wrapper) into a bin or compost pile once he's done.
The exhibition received a lot of nationwide positive press. Here is a scan from a local newspaper from Nottingham.