Mens Pockets

Giant men's suit pocket cast (multiple pockets)

A series of plaster casts of the inside of mens’ business suit pockets. These previously never been seen spaces are revealed showing every stitch , crease, corner of fluff , texture of fabric. Pockets are first stitched together with other suit fabric to make the mould and create abnormally long, extended, voluminous pieces. The ink … Read more

Trophy Pieces

Trophy Pieces - installation

This piece was installed at Huddersfield Art Gallery , as part of the exhibition “Borrow Pit” , with the Yorkshire Sculptors Group, 2023. size variable , here 2.5m x 2m x 1mmens business suits, wire, stuffing, mascara, bra wire, glazed ceramic, thread, safetey pins Borrow pit is a building term referring to a hole, pit … Read more

Casting Mens Suit Pockets

Mens’ business suit pockets are cast in plaster of paris. The hidden, secretive form of the inside of the pocket is revealed and exposed. Ink has bled and splashed, shreds of embedded material and clinging threads. The larger ones are created by sewing  more suit material to the pocket mould, to enlarge, manipulate and extend … Read more

De-constructing Mens’ Business Suits

This body of work across sculpture , installation, video and performance, looks at gender, power and identity, through my interference with and manipulation of mens’ business suits. The iconic status of the suits and its default attachment to power, is subverted through different forms of deconstruction: cutting and shredding with a scalpel, fraying, picking apart, … Read more

ceramics

ceramic pieces to be inserted into frayed, slashed , stitched mens’ suits- or hold a section of heavily frayed shoulder pad lining that has mascara liberally applied some of these forms are swollen, and bulging. Bruised. Truncated. Hollow inside. white, pink : skin, bone, flesh some are cut, scratched, sliced, bent, buckled some appear as … Read more