How To Catch A Ghost

Hanged man

A4 notebook scan - collage cutouts

Soldiers 1996

A4 collage and ink

Shaman

A4 collage

1995

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.

Stepping out

A4 Collage on inkjet overprint

early 2000s

In the pink

A4 collage - paper, tissue paper

Seated figure

A4, biro/ballpoint pen on collage cutout

@stevelovettcutbacks @mnemotechnicstoo

Men walking

A4 Collage

Private collection

Book of boys

Notebook scan

Stanley Stellar meets Denton Welch at a gravestone in Devon

A4, digital collage and collage cutout