STATE OF THE NATIONS commission Chapter Arts, Cardiff
In Humanity : London College of Communication
In Humanity at London College of Communication for Very Now Art and Journalism Festival
SHOVE
HERE COMES EVERYBODY – work in progress tower#1
Economic Recovery?
NOTE 2011
340cm x 570cm
pigment ink and PVA on Financial Times newspaper with UV medium topcoat
George Bush A Portrait 2007
300cm x 300cm
pigment ink on newspaper
Head of State 2007
280cm x 300cm
pigment ink and spraymount on newspaper with UV medium topcoat
Embedded Art 2009
Control Room 2
6m x 18m
oil, acrylic, pigment ink, paper on billboard print
2009
Akademie Der Kunst, Berlin, Germany
We were commissioned to make Control Room 2 for Embedded Art , a group exhibition dealing with issues of surveillance. We got the background image of a control room printed as three 6 metre by 6 metre street posters on blue back billboard paper.
Pasting them butted up together, directly onto the untreated concrete wall we then collaged about 100 images onto the base paper and scraped into the images using industrial grinders, tearing at the paper and adding oil and acrylic paint. Trying to encapsulate the separate works in the show which dealt with surveillance from the domestic to the military, our work uses images of police action (mainly in Germany where it was made for) to Iraq . We show images of state torture adjacent to surveillance photos of western streets. Looking at the work the audience is watching the watched looking back at them, while all the while being filmed and projected in another part of the exhibition.
The work was destroyed by the Akademie at the end of the show in March 2009. See it being made and in detail here………

we had to paste up a base layer of random billboard sheets before pasting up the real base image, donated by a mate, Fibs helped us – thanks Fibs!
photos by Kristian Buus
Soldier I
Soldier #1
270cm x 700cm
Pigment ink, charcoal, acrylic and paper on newspaper
2006