Work

The 21st Century has brought along a blonde with a slightly different hue – harking back to vision of Barbie crossed with the values of a 1950’s housewife.

This work uses the ‘condition’ ‘Blonde’ as a way of describing notions of shifting identities.

This work was commissioned by CCCB in Barcelona to provide an overview / document of London and its connection with the African continent today.

In 2001 my father was diagnosed with cancer which coincided with the arrival of my first cameraphone which unwittingly documents the following few years of my life.

In March and April 2008 I participated in an international artists workshop on the island of Hoy, Orkney. The wintery conditions impacted on the work of all the artists. Central to my inspiration was the time and distance of the journey to Hoy from London overland.

Marjorie Bell MBE was matron at the hospital from 1949-1970 years, which would have seen the formation and development of many changes of the NHS.

In 2009 spent the beginning of the summer on an Artist Residency at Kuona Trust in Nairobi.

N|u is a moribund language of the southern Kalahari

Gomera focuses on the close relationship between the physical landscape and language.

The Language of Flowers, was a popular ‘Victorian’ form of interaction in which every flower had individual meaning.

It later developed as a very personal examination and exploration of personal hopes, aspirations, ambitions and desires.

Who can deny the power of a pair of hairdresser’s scissors, or the bewitching effect of a set of dark false eyelashes?

The people know they can be whom they want, when they want, with whom they want.

The work reflects on the international issue of shared colonial histories, taking the local as a reflection of the global.

These exquisite gloves, imported into South Africa from Europe, manufactured in fine satin, or soft kid with handstitched soft leather, delicate embroidery and careful beading, inhabited a world where in public covered hands and matching garments were de-riguer.

For me what is interesting and intriguing about these objects is their association with a particular society and moment in history.

“What is interesting about the iconographic nature of the Blonde is that no matter how the world moves on, there are still those hanging on by their last finely manicured nail to the image of the ‘bubble blonde’.

I decided to photograph these garments which represent different times and experiences in my life.

Inspired by numerous interviews conducted during a four-month research trip around the Caribbean.

This work is an exploration of gender construction through the obvious association with object and ‘feminine’ description.

‘Memory and Skin’ uses image, sound, objects and text to weave together is a series of narratives, which talks of the Caribbean as a fusion of the cultures and colonial legacies.

500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but al