No Going Back
No Going Back
The exhibition “No Going Back” reflects my practice that responds and evolves constantly according to global and personal contexts and events. Some of the work was scheduled to be shown in 2020 just as the world was stopped in its tracks by the global pandemic and it was no longer “safe” to have contact with other other human beings.
In 2022 although on the surface there is some semblance of a “return to normal” as experienced up till now in the UK and the global north, it becomes increasingly obvious that the “normal” that we have had, as the world continues to heat up, will not be possible or available for us or for the next generations.
Since the end of 2018 and especially since becoming involved with Extinction Rebellion I identify as an artist/activist - an artivist - I have developed my skills as a film maker and writer as well as a visual artist and photographer.
I use found imagery in my work, from newspapers, magazines, the internet and social media and which represent aspects of events that are happening in the world - e.g climate emergency, war, displacement and mass migration. Although I did not consciously set out to produce a series of work on these themes, it became a visual expression and outpouring of my grief at these apocalyptic times.
I hope, through manipulating and re-contextualising these images using my artist’s palette of digital and analogue technologies, I am also able to represent and be reminded of the frailty and fragility as well as the strength and resilience of our world and the human spirit.
Locker Cafe June - September 2022
The exhibition “No Going Back” reflects my practice that responds and evolves constantly according to global and personal contexts and events. Some of the work was scheduled to be shown in 2020 just as the world was stopped in its tracks by the global pandemic and it was no longer “safe” to have contact with other other human beings.
In 2022 although on the surface there is some semblance of a “return to normal” as experienced up till now in the UK and the global north, it becomes increasingly obvious that the “normal” that we have had, as the world continues to heat up, will not be possible or available for us or for the next generations.
Since the end of 2018 and especially since becoming involved with Extinction Rebellion I identify as an artist/activist - an artivist - I have developed my skills as a film maker and writer as well as a visual artist and photographer.
I use found imagery in my work, from newspapers, magazines, the internet and social media and which represent aspects of events that are happening in the world - e.g climate emergency, war, displacement and mass migration. Although I did not consciously set out to produce a series of work on these themes, it became a visual expression and outpouring of my grief at these apocalyptic times.
I hope, through manipulating and re-contextualising these images using my artist’s palette of digital and analogue technologies, I am also able to represent and be reminded of the frailty and fragility as well as the strength and resilience of our world and the human spirit.
Locker Cafe June - September 2022
