Homo Blood (with Michaelangelo, Twombly And Cavafy)

Creation of the Pleroma (after Marsden Hartley)

A4 collage, foil, pencil frottage, digital collage

From early Christian Gnosticism and the Nag Hamaddi library, the Pleroma is the Gnostic spiritual superstructure. It includes divine female spiritual elements, such as Sophia and, particularly, Barbelo, which resonates with me. In some versions of the Creation of the Pleroma, god gazes onto the sea (which serves as a mirror) and his reflection manifests as another, female, being – Barbelo. Out of this gender fluid, narcissistic moment, God’s son materialises and the Holy Trinity is formed. My version is even queerer still, including 50s and 70s male pinups and an image by Marsden Hartley, an under-appreciated gay American painter, who was working at the turn of the last century.

Letter home

A4 Paper Collage

Automatic poem

A4 collage on digital collage and digital drawing

Charm for well-being

Recycled tin, miscellaneous objects

catch

A6

Biro on paper

Collage as object #1

23cm x 30cm camera film negative holder with collage and found objects

Got your number from a mutual friend

A4 woven collage with automatic writing

TV licence: Cy Twombly, Michaelangelo and Cavafy get together

23 x 20cm

Collage

Spring Jockstrap (after Filippo De Pisis)

A4ish woven collage - scanned watercolour and digital collage

Untitled

A4 collage

2020