10/03/2019

Since I finished my paintings for the Museum of Legacies, I've thrown myself into pure experiment and fun, abandoning the portrait format in favour of cutting up ply into shapes that I then paint with faces, flowers, patterns, and stack together. This way of working makes it very easy to experiment, swapping parts around, handing them on the wall, stacking them with supporting sticks. I'm calling this series 'Born in a Museum', after the first cutout I made, which is based on my favourite portrait in the MoL, with the addition of big red dots. My idea is to liberate the pictures from the walls and extend their life into 3Dimensions, playing with the idea they can move and have a real individual identity.

I'm also feeling quite excited and rebellious. It's making me think how massive and pompous sculpture can be. These are inspired by the beauty of Mughal miniatures, by cartoons, by playfullness. Why should sculpture be large, solid, weighty and voluminous? It can be flat, skimpy, wobbly, pretty.