New Pocket Knowledge (July 2009)

Inkjet on altered King Penguin book. 30x25 cm. Set of six

Six unstitched King Penguin books altered with

a single inkjet print placed in a vacant space on a double page

spread.

Each intervention makes an opportunistic connection with

the books original topic, while exploring the material nature

of photographs and their reproductions.

Returning Burton's Plunder

24pp silver nitrate/ salt prints and inkjet on pulp paper, buckram cover with

paper seal. Staple bound 140x140. 3 copies.

A dilemma book containing a selection of Harry Burton's photographs

and excerpts from the diaries of Howard Carter during their discovery

and plunder of Tutankhamun's tomb in the 1920's. The book is

sealed to avoid casual or accidental opening and this seal must first

be broken before reading.

Each time the pages are viewed, the unfixed images fade a little more.

The only way to preserve the images is to rip them out and treat

with chemical fixers.

These examples show the cover (above) with a broken seal and a selection of

spreads (below) after six readings/exposure to daylight.

Unbound book *2

Stanley Dock, Liverpool. September 2010

Two 28x120cm folded concertina sections.

Photopolymer print on pulp paper dipped

in dock water.

Unbound book *1

An incomplete sequence of 23 hut numbers.

Isle of Wight. September 2010

Five 28x120cm unfolded concertina sections.

Inkjet on pulp paper

Physical Barriers *1: Car roof landscapes (Aug 2010)

8pp concertina fold inkjet on pulp paper, sky blue buckram

over boards. 30x20cm

Physical Barriers explores the potential of a restricted visual

practice when faced with forbidden access and/or limited scope.

Little Blue Books *1 (April 2010)

Four original Little Blue Books in clear plastic

wallets with vintage family photograph insertions.

Little Blue Books plays off the blithe promises

offered by the famous pocket books against the

unwittingly prescient family photograph.

The pieces explore the re-use of vernacular

material and their former functional, knowledge-

imparting use.

The sleeves also include the handwritten notes

of obsessive collector Scott Kamins (from whom

the books were purchased) describing his relationship

with archive material.

Greenpoint notebook (May 2010)

31pp inkjet on found notebook 9x14cm.

Yellow spiral-bound pulp paper with orange card cover.

A low quality paper notebook found at the scene was unbound,

printed on, then rethreaded to explore the nature of the printed

photograph as artefact.