Installations

I have always enjoyed making as well as painting and drawing. I produced a series of forms made from rolled newspaper bound with strips of cotton. These began with the concept of railings (following my Somers Town project) but gradually responded to the qualities of their material and to the process involved in creating them. Rolling and binding are nurturing and containing processes. The forms became objects in their own right. I varied the materials, experimented with size and shape, and cut the forms to reveal the interior.

Displaying work led to questions of whether or not to frame, and how the work sits in space. I hung forms in sections of fencing wire, and went on to produce a string net (which related to the wire netting) with the idea of hanging forms within it. But the process of making the net, and its large scale, gave it a life of its own: it could be both an image and an encompassing object – rigid or relaxed.