(1992-Current)
Cornerstone is an ambitious project, which seeks to locate a historical transference, from the Industrial Age to the Postindustrial. The brick becomes a condensed means to picture the impact of the industrial revolution on the British landscape. The names that are manufactured into the bricks and fragments of brick texts, give these materials character and identity and evoke landscape, nature, history, industry and culture. Collectively they form a poem that evokes place, landscape, memory and 300 years of British social history.
Cornerstone is an ambitious project, which seeks to locate a historical transference, from the Industrial Age to the Postindustrial. The brick becomes a condensed means to picture the impact of the industrial revolution on the British landscape. The names that are manufactured into the bricks and fragments of brick texts, give these materials character and identity and evoke landscape, nature, history, industry and culture. Collectively they form a poem that evokes place, landscape, memory and 300 years of British social history.
Cornerstone was initiated in the early 1990’s and has evolved accordingly, from photographs, to installations and sculpture, audio visual, artist books, to ceramic transfers on brick and 3d prints. Sections of this body of work have been exhibited at the Reims Photography Festival, France and the inaugural Superstructure, exhibition, Centre of Visual Arts, Cardiff, Wales in 1999 and at the Diffusion, Cardiff International Festival of Photography in 2013.
Atlas
Brick, 1992 -99, Silver Gelatin Print, 41 x 31cm
Nation Brick, 1992 -99, Silver
Gelatin Print, 41 x 31cm
Colliery Brick, 1992 -99, Silver Gelatin Print, 41 x 31cm
Colliery Brick, 1992 -99, Silver Gelatin Print, 41 x 31cm
Ore Brick, 1992 -99, Silver
Gelatin Print, 41 x 31cm
Brickface 1- Ceramic transfer on brick, 12 x 7 x 7 cm, 2014
Brickface 1- Ceramic transfer on brick, 12 x 7 x 7 cm, 2014
Brickface 2 - Ceramic transfer on brick, 12 x 7 x 7 cm, 2014
Tunnel Brick, 3D print, 23 x 10.5 x 7 cm, 2016
Trimsaran Metallic Brick, 3D print,
17 x 10 x 7.5 cm, 2016