not waving but drowning (2022)

///identity.conceptual.lies
Is everything okay?

52 concrete pillars with protruding concrete hands are installed in Miami’s Midtown area during Art Basel 2022.

Not waving, but drowning
Midtown Miami
Aerosol, Acrylic, Plaster, Concrete
2.4 x 0.5 x 220m
(2022)

“Everyone is pretending it’s fine, but you can tell something’s up, the club is empty”
- Stripper, 22, Miami

In 2022 Miami was heralded as the crypto capital and is widely recognised at one of the most at risk major cities when it comes to climate change and sea levels rising.

Art Basel Miami saw gridlock traffic, a surge in flights and an ATM that measured how wealthy you are.

Conflict United (2021)

///identity.conceptual.nationality
Can nationality mean different things at the same time?

Football Shirts, card, perspex
1400 x 1400mm
2021

Match kits worn by warring nations are sourced
Kits are worn during football matches where the countries are at war
Shirts of opposing warring nations are matched
Shirts are sewn together

Anti-Quax (2021)

///freedom.conceptual.media
What do you really want from the internet?

Application
Duck Imagery, Code
Github
2021

Assumptions
Humans enjoy spending time in nature
Humans do not enjoy viruses
Viruses are part of nature
Ducks are part of nature
Ducks aren’t viral

The parts of nature that we enjoy being with aren’t viral, why is our media?

Anti-Quax is a personalised Ad-blocker

It covers all references to words associated with the pandemic with a picture of a duck.

Available for Google chrome via Google drive download here.

Video instructions are for install are here

The source code is available on Github here

Source code is customisable to allow changes to blocked word list and imagery

Is this progress or is this just marketing? (2021)

///control.conceptual.technology
Is the idea of technological progress real?

Installation
Recycled Floor Stickers, Ink on Cold Pressed Watercolour paper and Typewriter, Recording device, Web Platform
The Fitzrovia Gallery

Conceptual Installation exploring marketing funnels, data collection and our relationship with technology.

Coloured spots cover 5000m² of pedestrian pavement near Installation point

Installation is viewable through paned glass

Viewers are prompted to read the poem aloud*

Viewers vocal data is recorded*

Viewers vocal data is anonymised and combined*

Viewers anonymised and combined vocal data is sold as an NFT*

Installation is the first NFT Installation in the UK

*Disclosure agreement for data use is visible but easily missed

Spot Paintings (2021)

///freedom.conceptual.exhibition
How much can we communicate with common symbols?

Aerosol, Recycled Covid floor Signs
300mmx300mm

Arrangements various sizes
Colour pallette from recognisable art of similar style

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