Material
A series of digital photographs from a performance for camera.
Information
Performance for camera with a red flannel bandage from WWII.
Red Behind My Eyes recollects my earliest memories of hospitalisation at the age of two. They centre around the unfathomable procedures and instruments that accompany medical intervention. The memories are vivid, yet unreliable and frayed around the edges. The performance gestures place my own sense-making as a child onto the adult body. The camera is both a witness and an active participant. The gestures trace time across the elastic polarities of a lived life, across an artistic practice that returns time and time again to gesture for camera, across the remnants of WWII and across the 20 seconds exposure time that allows for the tracking of a body in space and for me to simultaneously be both sides of the lens.
The bandage has an interesting medical and war history. It was known as the 'cholera' bandage. Even though it was already know that cholera was airborne and no longer attributed to the cold, it still formed part of a soldier's standard kit. It should be wrapped around the chest to keep cholera at bay. On occasion it was used as Christmas decoration in hospital wards for injured soldiers.
Dimensions
Variable
Exhibited
Blickfeld 2025 “Spuren” at Tübingen, Germany 2025.
Printed on tarpaulins for construction fences.
Material
6 x oil based ink recto-verso monoprints of a gauze medical bandage on Hahnemühle Mould-made Printing Board 350gsm
Information
A fold is a convoluted space with areas of exposure and concealment reflecting a dimensional relationship between interior and exterior worlds, the visible and the underlying. The human brain’s capacity for expansive function is also due to its folds, which allow much more surface than is visible, creating more function and storage possibilities and allowing it to be the complex structure we experience. Like human individuals each monoprint is unique and unrepeatable. Each of the prints portray a recto verso of 3 different folds in a medical gauze bandage.
Anatomy of a Fold was originally a material investigation into landscape, with mountain and valley folds. The open weave structure of gauze holds the cultural history and practices of Gaza as one of its originating locations. The bandage itself is symbolic of wound management and hope for healing – a life line. The presentation resembles a vital sign on a hospital monitor.
Dimensions
53xm x 78cm per print. Over all dimensions 53cm x 474cm
Exhibited
Carving the Landscape at Galerie Gedok , Stuttgart, Germany 2023.
Art, Psyche and Health, Research and Treatment Center for Mental Health (FBZ). Bochum, Germany 2025.
Shortlisted for the 2025 FBZ Art Award.
Material
Print object
Oil based ink monoprint of medical dressing on Whatman 1 filter paper in soda glass Petri dish.
Information
Different works in bandages have spanned several years. They simultaneously point to sites of trauma, healing and protection. They have skin and publishing adjacent qualities of recto/verso folds and wrinkles. They are of the body and of the landscape with the open gauze weave types historically developing around the Gaza region. Whilst they are particular, holding an individual’s trauma they are also generic and recognisable world-wide. Some of the bandage works are closer to the body, have touched skin and are blotted in corporeal fluids, others are closer to the landscape with mountain and valley folds resonating with encountered terrains. They are inextricably linked to both.
Dimensions
Ø 8cm
Exhibited
Gedok, Stuttgart, 2022
Material
Print object
Oil based ink monoprint of medical dressing on Whatman 1 filter paper in soda glass Petri dish.
Dimensions
Ø 8cm
Exhibited
Gedok, Stuttgart 2022
Single channel video
Material
Medical bandage, iodine
Information
Dedicated to Elaine and Ann
A distilled reflection on the loss of two close cousins who were born a year apart and also died a year apart, both aged 53.
53 is the atomic number of iodine. It is the heaviest mineral required for health by the human body. Because of its specific uptake in the body it is also used as a non-toxic radiocontrast in medical investigative procedures and also as a radioactive isotope to treat thyroid cancer.
This work is also an exploration of video as painting, of slow looking and gradual changes and the return to a fresh canvas to begin again.
Dimensions
Variable
Photo credit
Screenshot
Single channel video
Material
Medical bandage, iodine
Information
Dedicated to Elaine and Ann
A distilled reflection on the loss of two close cousins who were born a year apart and also died a year apart, both aged 53.
53 is the atomic number of iodine. It is the heaviest mineral required for health by the human body. Because of its specific uptake in the body it is also used as a non-toxic radiocontrast in medical investigative procedures and also as a radioactive isotope to treat thyroid cancer.
This work is also an exploration of video as painting, of slow looking and gradual changes and the return to a fresh canvas to begin again.
Dimensions
Variable
Photo credit
Screenshot
Material
Medical dressing, A+ blood, pink thread.
Dimensions
6cm x 30cm
Exhibited
Maryam Art Gallery, Kashan, IR
Aknoon Gallery, Isfahan, IR
Material
Medical bandage, A+ blood, gold-coloured thread
Dimensions
7cm x 58 cm
Exhibited
Maryam Art Gallery, Kashan, IR
Aknoon Gallery, Isfahan, IR
Material
Found stone, medical dressing, A+ blood
Dimensions
7cm x 6cm x 4cm
Exhibited
Maryam Art Gallery, Kashan, IR
Aknoon Gallery, Isfahan, IR