1989

 

 

The ‘1989’ pieces are reflections on the themes of memory, nostalgia, the point between childhood and adulthood, the connections we form with particular places, and the sites where rites of passage into maturity are enacted. These collages reconfigure the sketches and ephemera found in my notebooks from that period (tickets from buses, gigs and the cinema, sweet wrappers, magazine clippings, scraps of paper with phone numbers) alongside maps and new elements.  Paint clouds over and obscures details, foregrounding others. These works are about the moments, the autobiographical details, that the component elements represent, but they are also about the processes whereby those memories are themselves adapted, edited and shaped into a coherent personal history. The integration of juvenilia from teenage sketchbooks within collages created currently also works to produce a reflective commentary on my own artistic development.