Part 1 Artist book with 21 drypoint prints bound in sheet lead 2018
Part 2 Cast & sheet lead, paper labels & museum casing  2018

Part 2 Exhibited at RWA Sculpture Open 2019
Part 1 & 2 Exhibited at 44AD 2020

Studying & recording relics of the modern age, cataloguing small broken objects that indicate an expression of anxiety, I have archived the debris left behind in my classroom like a museum of archeological small finds. The processes involved to replicate these small & obscure objects have challenged my technical skills to create an alchemic beauty in their transformation to artworks in print (Part 1) or sculpture (Part 2).

I am fascinated by the personal traces embodied in each “involuntary sculpture”, reminiscent of Surrealist works by Brassai and taking further inspiration from lead curse tablets found in the local Roman Baths. Lead is associated with weight, death, incarceration & alchemy so it seems particularly apt for recording these transient objects as witnesses to the poisonous nature of anxiety as an illness that is ransacking our younger generations.