A series of drawn forms made in the quiet early and later hours, over extended periods of time. The process performs a reliable private place of slow return within a home, where a making process gathers, harmonises and settles disquiets of the mind and body.

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Working the surface performs a narrative; pressed, rolled, burnished and nuanced.  Over time it absorbs, relocates imprints of a listening mind. It conjures a mapping of dreams and draws out a form teasing the two dimensional.

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​These ‘gifts’ weave their way out into the world as a reply to extraordinary work delivered via recorded lecture series and zoom events with generosity and a yearning to exchange learning. With thanks to the Sh+me project, shining light on the enquiries of sexual violence https://shame.bbk.ac.uk/  and ‘The Gift : How the creative spirit transforms the world’ by Lewis Hyde.

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'Listening gift : companion’ 2021 (below)

graphite on paper

82 x 140cm

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'Listening gift : a dawning’ 2021

graphite on paper with wooden blocks

100 x 77 x 10cm

 

‘Listening gift : on waking’ 2022

graphite on paper

101 x 140 x 20cm

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