MAD as MAP : a group exhibition at News Of The World, Deptford, London 2019 with Jaf Yusuf, Karanjit Panesar, and Georgia Gendall. Images Rosie Taylor and David Owens. Penultimate image from 24Hourwindow, Glasgow.
Border 1 (After MS Word) (2019) (Image 1) Acrylic Plastic, and vinyl transfers.
Piazza (Reclaimed and Anagrammed Shop Sign #1) (2019) (Image 2) Acrylic plastic.
The work is part of a series which uses reclaimed shop signs from former businesses anagrammed into new words; a simple action that gives the letters a new future.
Happy Place (2019) (Image 3,4,5) Neon sign, carabiners, chains, and acrylic plastic.
Taken from a colouring book of famous artworks, the line drawing of a face is a vectorised version of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, here rendered in neon. Showing the eyes, nose, and mouth only, the work isolates the often remarked about stare and smile. In the French language, Da Vinci’s work is known as La Joconde, meaning the happy or the jovial one. Here, the neon is mounted as a sign on chains, like those found outside bars, shops and restaurants.
Fotocopias (2019) (Image 6)Neon pink A3 risograph print, edition of 50.
An edition of risograph prints using a photograph taken of a sign for a photocopy and print shop in Barcelona, Spain.