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Animal Spirits
2017. Wood, money, buttons, cotton. 41 x 15 x 6 cm.

I inherited this from my economist father, a souvenir from his consulting work in Africa. I re-carved it to have the eyes from one of Rembrandt’s later self portraits, sadder and wiser after its engagement with global capital.
For Your Safety & Security
2014. Vitrines, wallpaper, nylon and acrylic paint. Each 53 x 65 x 7 cm.

Marcel Duchamp suggested to Richard Hamilton that he produce his own versions of classical genres, prompting Hamilton’s 1970′s ‘Flowers and Shit’ series, to which I have responded with my own flower paintings, infested with weaponised insects.
For Your Safety & Security – Eglantine 1
2014. Vitrine, wallpaper, nylon and acrylic paint. 70 x 75 x 7 cm.

Marcel Duchamp suggested to Richard Hamilton that he produce his own versions of classical genres, prompting Hamilton’s 1970′s ‘Flowers and Shit’ series, to which I have responded with my own flower paintings, infested with weaponised insects.
For Your Safety & Security – Eglantine 1 (detail)
2014. Vitrine, wallpaper, nylon and acrylic paint. 70 x 75 x 7 cm.
For Your Safety & Security – Abundance 1 (detail)
2014. Vitrine, wallpaper, nylon and acrylic paint. 53 x 65 x 7 cm.

Marcel Duchamp suggested to Richard Hamilton that he produce his own versions of classical genres, prompting Hamilton’s 1970’s ‘Flowers and Shit’ series, to which I have responded with my own flower paintings.
Host
2011. Jelly – 50 x 30 x 30 cm.

We are meat, infected by language.