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Phone Art

May 10, 2019

I’ve been taking photographs of people with mobile phones since they were invented decades ago. This piece was based on a photograph I took in Liverpool Street station last year. Do mobile phones improve communication or are they a digital distraction from real conversation between humans?

Young woman with a phone. Mixed media on card. Measuring 210 x 297 mm.

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On the phone in Renshaw Street. Liverpool, May 2019.

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Insect & Plant Art

May 5, 2019

The image below was made from a photograph I took of a deceased ‘daddy long legs’ I found by the window in the bedroom.

Insects are at risk from climate change but they might survive longer than humans. Given the fact that fossil fuel companies and their insatiable thirst for profits are destroying the planet I thought I should show some respect to this dead Scouse insect and make a token remembrance of its brief life.

‘Extinction insect’. Mixed media on card. Measuring 210 x 297 mm.

Since childhood I’ve always been fascinated by the architecture of plants and, in particular, dandelions. Close examination always reveals marvellous graphic design and symmetry. I’ve tried to capture this with the image below – based on a photograph I took of a single dandelion in Greece last year.

 

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Woman walking under the bridge in Wheeler Street. London 1987

Woman walking under the bridge in Wheeler Street. East London 1987.

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Whitechapel c.1983

Betting shop in Whitechapel. East London, 1983.

Market trader moving his stall in Whitechapel market. East London 2004.

Whitechapel Market c.1989

Whitechapel Market. East London, 1989.

Man with a pram, Toynbee street 1988

Man with a pram, Toynbee street. East London, 1988.

Whitechapel Market c.1984

Whitechapel Market. East London 1984.

Landlady Sandra Esqulant outside the Golden Heart pub in Spitalfields. London August 2008.

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