Tyger Tyger

Untitled

A4 drawing and collage

Diary notes Spring 2023

A4 inkjet overprint (over a scan of collage and digital collage)

I am pleased to be showing this collage at the Tension Fine Art group show Extempore 24 from 22 February – 2 March 2024

Maps to the Stars

Framed, 30cm x 40cm

Collage and pencil

£135

This collage incorporates a landscape by the wonderful painter Agnes Pelton and a Marshall Island stick chart, used to navigate the sea. The pencil grid is a nod to Agnes Martin (another great painter and source of inspiration), whilst doubling as a template for a cubomania.

Tension Fine Art

135 Maple Rd,

London

SE20 8LP

Gallery is open Thurs – Sat 11am – 5pm.

Bubble figures

A6

Biro on paper

Cherry blossom pool

A4

Ink pen and tippex on laser jet print

pink shirt

A4 collage- scanned collage with mirror tiles

with @stevelovettcutbacks

Little book of coping spells

A5

Recycled penguin book

Sinners

19cm x 15cm

Collage and frottage

Ants (for David)

A4 drawing: colour pencil and biro on digital collage

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.