Bouquets and Butterflies
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‘Pop Goes the Weasel’
The Royal College of Art 2016 -
‘Pop Goes the Weasel’
The Royal College of Art 2016 -
Devil’s Trumpet
Mixed media including steel, nickel and silver plated spoons
62 x 50 x 50cm (24 x 20 x 20 inches)
Collection Victoria and Albert MuseumDevil’s Trumpet is a modern day memento mori (Latin for ‘remember you will die’). Inspired by Dutch still lives of the 16th and 17th Century where the pictures team with precious objects testifying to the pleasures of life and the flow of time, such as a pocket watch, a pewter mug, a vase of flowers, a set table. In this sculpture the flowers are constructed from silver plated spoons, pewter tankards, silver vases and plates – the contents of a 16th century Dutch still life reassembled in another dimension and time. Devil’s Trumpet is inspired by Grinling Gibbons the famous wood carver of the 17th Century who was celebrated for his sculpture garlands featuring cascades of fruit.
This sculpture was originally commissioned as an installation for the ‘Pop goes the Weasel’ exhibition at The Royal College of Art in July 2016 and is now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Devil’s Trumpet
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Devil’s Trumpet - detail
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Devil’s Trumpet - detail
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Devil’s Trumpet - detail
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Devil’s Trumpet - detail
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Devil’s Trumpet - detail
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Devil's Trumpet
Silver Galleries, Victoria and Albert Museum
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Devil's Trumpet
Silver Galleries, Victoria and Albert Museum
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Devil's Trumpet
Silver Galleries, Victoria and Albert Museum
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Weeping Willow
Mixed media including silver, nickel, and steel plated spoons
Dimensions: 76 x 53cm (30 x 21 inches) -
Weeping Willow - detail
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Weeping Willow - detail
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Weeping Willow - detail
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Weeping Willow - detail
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Le Pom Pom
Mixed media including silver, nickel, and steel plated spoons
Dimensions: 76 x 53cm (30 x 21 inches) -
Le Pom Pom - detail
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Le Pom Pom - detail
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Le Pom Pom - detail
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Le Pom Pom - detail
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Madame Moulliere
Mixed media including silver, nickel, and steel plated spoons
Dimensions: 80 x 65 cm ( 31 x 26 inches) -
Madame Moulliere - detail
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Madame Moulliere - detail
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Madame Moulliere - detail
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Madame Moulliere - detail
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Red Hot Poker
Mixed media including silver, nickel, and steel plated spoons
Dimensions: 151 x 72 cm (59 x 28 inches) -
Red Hot Poker - detail
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Red Hot Poker - detail
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Red Hot Poker - detail
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Red Hot Poker - detail
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Honey Spurge
Mixed media including steel, nickel and silver plated spoons
45 x 110 x 27cm (18 x 43 x 11 inches)Honey Spurge a modern day memento mori (Latin for ‘remember you will die’). Inspired by Dutch still lives of the 16th and 17th Century where the pictures team with precious objects testifying to the pleasures of life and the flow of time, such as a pocket watch, a pewter mug, a vase of flowers, a set table. In this sculpture the flowers are constructed from silver plated spoons, pewter tankards, silver vases and plates – the contents of a 16th century Dutch still life reassembled in another dimension and time. A pewter tankard has been ‘peeled’ like an orange to form a bow, and silver plated goblets are manipulated into the petals of a honey spurge . Honey Spurge is the name of a Dutch tulip.
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Honey Spurge - detail
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Honey Spurge - detail
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Honey Spurge - detail
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Viper’s Bugloss
Mixed media including steel, nickel and silver plated spoons
45 x 110 x 27cm (18 x 43 x 11 inches)Viper’s Bugloss is a modern day memento mori (Latin for ‘remember you will die’). Inspired by Dutch still lives of the 16th and 17th Century where the pictures team with precious objects testifying to the pleasures of life and the flow of time, such as a pocket watch, a pewter mug, a vase of flowers, a set table. In Viper’s Bugloss the flowers are constructed from silver plated spoons, pewter tankards, silver vases and plates – the contents of a 16th century Dutch still life reassembled in another dimension and time. A pewter tankard has been ‘peeled’ like an orange to form a bow and silver plated platters are beaten flat to make the petals of Viper’s Bugloss. Viper’s Bugloss is the name of a poisonous flower.
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Viper’s Bugloss - detail
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Viper’s Bugloss - detail
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Viper’s Bugloss - detail
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Curate’s Egg
Mixed media including steel, nickel and silver plated spoons
180 x 45 x 15cm (71 x 18 x 10 inches)Curate’s Egg is a modern day memento mori. (Latin for ‘remember you will die’). Inspired by Dutch still lives of the 16th and 17th Century where the pictures team with precious objects testifying to the pleasures of life and the flow of time, such as a pocket watch, a pewter mug, a vase of flowers, a set table. In this sculpture the flowers are constructed in the form of a garland from silver plated spoons, pewter tankards, silver vases and plates – the contents of a 16th century Dutch still life reassembled in another dimension and time. Curate’s Egg is the name of a dutch tulip.
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Curate’s Egg - detail
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Curate’s Egg - detail
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Curate’s Egg - detail
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Silver Snap Dragon and Golden Blowball,
Haberdasher’s Livery Hall, Smithfield, London
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Rupturewort
Mixed media including silver and nickel plated barbed wire
105 x 95 x 38cm (41 x 37 x 15 inches)All objects come with their own readymade histories and associations that can be unravelled and explored by rearranging, distorting or realigned to give new meaning as sculpture. Riotous scribbled coils of thorny barbed wire are teased, tamed and pummelled to produce blossoms fulfilling the sculptural destiny of barbed wire.
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Rupturewort - detail
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Rupturewort - detail
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Rupturewort - detail
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Pop goes the Weasel
Royal College of Art
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Prickle Pouf
Mixed media including silver and nickel plated barbed wire
68 x 60 x 72cm (26 x 24 x 28 inches) -
Prickle Pouf - detail
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Prickle Pouf - detail
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Silver Washed Fritillary
Mixed media including steel, perspex, aluminium, nickel and silver.
72 x 65 x 35cm (28 x 25 x 14 inches)The tools of a painter – brush palette and paint (usually employed in the art of 3d illusion) assembled to make a sculpture, a butterfly sculpture. In place of paint is molten metal arranged like the metallic wings of the Vapourer butterfly. Its about being an artist flitting between painting and sculpture, a bit all over the place.
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Silver Washed Fritillary - detail
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Silver Washed Fritillary - detail
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Silver Washed Fritillary - detail
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Pop goes the Weasel
Royal College of Art
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Pom Pom Pompadour
Paul Smith Gallery, Mayfair 2017