A Stale Conversation Between Two Brothers
The installation explores the stagnation of our algorithmic lifestyles through a fabricated, hollow reality. Using pigeons and cast iron tree grilles, the installation reflects static growth, urban excess, and the deceptive clarity within modern life.
Taub Pigeons
Taub is a series of slip-cast pigeons that reflect human behaviours shaped by instinct, repetition and digital overconsumption. Cast from decoy birds, these pigeons are named after the German word meaning both "pigeon" and "deaf", symbolising a society that mimics, adapts and survives while refusing to truly listen or change. Displayed with shiny legs as a gesture of honour, they represent resilience, overlooked value and the quiet tragedy of urban life.
Ironstone Mine Clay Vessels
Thrown from clay dug from an abandoned ironstone mine on the North Yorkshire Moors (below), these vessels are shaped by the land that made them. Using raw materials found on site, I let the natural textures and colours rise to the surface, echoing the rusted remnants and silence of the landscape.
In reworking the material, I am interested in how these artworks can hold onto fragments, and be in conversation with their own history as quiet markers of time and transformation. The vessels become containers of place, holding within them the memory of a site shaped by extraction, abandonment and slow regrowth.