Chasm, Arthron and Chiasmus
With a little nod towards Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, these three prints emanate…
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Bag Heads
In the 1950s Francis Bacon painted a series of heads. Since first seeing them I…
Iqbal as Defiant
I am fascinated by the human body, the person within and the skin which mediates…
ExoScapes
An examination of my exterior surface.
Il Sarto Immortale, part 2
Working with master pattern maker Desmond Lingard, to create a tailor’s pattern of my body.
Heart and Nerve and Sinew
This oil painting is a portrait of the internal focus and intense concentration needed to…
Specimens
Following a number of conversations about mental health, I started to wonder about the human…
RAW
The carcass of an animal can evoke a strong reaction by the viewer. The suspended…
The Forest of Earthly Desires
With a little nod towards Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, “The Forest of Earthly…
Liquid Lens
Taking some of the material first generated last year during last year’s collaboration with Robert…
Oliver
Over the past few years I have explored a range of drawing techniques and media…
Solution
The Solution series of paintings and drawings consider the immersed body and ponder the outcomes…
Martin M-P
Building on our shared sense of “otherness”, we have worked together on three projects before,…
Fugita
Fugita (120cm x 150cm) is the first work to be exhibited from the creative collaboration between…
Klein Bodies, part 1
The Klein Bottle was first described in 1882 by the German mathematician Felix Klein. It is a…
Totem
Working with Doug, I perform a close scrutiny of his body surface – the skin.…
Infinite Surface, the film
With the advent of effective medication many HIV+ people now have undetectable viral-loads, which promise…
Mappa Mundi inscribed
Driven by his desire for “aestheticisation”, this project seeks to create a new skin for Martin. During…
Mapping the body
Mapping the body is one of the recurring quests in my work. Often it involves…
Kage
Kage means “shadow” in Japanese. Working with Kage Douglas to explore the idea of the…
All our tomorrows…
As part of the King’s College Arts and Humanities Festival 2017, The Fence network of international playwrights…
Indelible
Sex-worker Max’s body and skin have witnessed and recorded his life from the ecstasy raves of…
InSideShow
InSideShow is a new work progressing from the existing collaboration between Jonathan Armour and Richard Sawdon…
ID: the Anagnorisis of Sgt. Creelan
On the evening of Friday 9th May 1997, Sgt Vincent Creelan of the RUC, went…
Now, where am I?
Scholars reckon that Albrecht Dürer made this drawing in black and white ink on dark…
Skin flux and rupture
On the evening of Friday 9th May 1997, Sgt Vincent Creelan of the RUC, went…
Martin Curiosity Rover
As man starts to explore other heavenly bodies, inevitably leaving his mark on their surfaces,…
Il Sarto Immortale, part 1
Driven by his desire for “aestheticisation”, this project seeks to create a new skin for Martin.…
Earth Skin
During the “Troubles” in Northern Ireland, everything was fixed, sectarian, identity driven. Now with confusion,…
Violintimacy
An exploration of the violent intimacy inscribed on the psychical body of Tommaso di Vincenzo. In…
Horhotep
Working with egyptologist Nick Carter: The Preparation. The Curing. The Maturing. The Peeling. All content…
Mappa Corpo
An atlas of the body created by the detailed haptic exploration of the surface of…
Luke Fischer 30.05.15
The cutaneous and kinaesthetic exploration of Luke’s body is perhaps a nod to the sculptor’s…
Roy Joseph Butler 28.05.15
Roy and I have worked together on 8 projects previously, some rather demanding. His body…
Paint Skin
Paint Skin uses 21st century technology to give visio-haptic enjoyment of one of the oldest…
Luke Fischer 2, studies
Like most of us, Luke is always concerned about how others might see him. As…
Roy Joseph Butler 7, studies
Following on from the session that produced Floor Skin, Roy was keen to try clay, with/out mixed with…
Felix Ng 1
Inspired by Katy Martin’s “After Bada Shanren” from the Skin Trade exhibition in New York…
Skin-ness of Skin
In this, the first part of a collaboration with Felix Ng, we explored the skin-ness…
Collaborator Kam
After a long gestation and discussion, I had the pleasure of working with Kam. Kam is…
Without and Within
The ability to see into and through the body’s surface, the skin, is a recurring…
Floor Skin
Floor Skin, is part record, part repository of evidence of a performative exploration, continuing the…
Veil
Part of the umbrella project Mappa Corpo, this composition for Veil was inspired by the 1651…
Shed
Part of the wider Human Pupa project.
Aestheticisation
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We claim this territory…
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