How and why do we sort what we sort? What’s going on in our decision making process?
A selection of artworks exploring the history of taxonomy and classification systems, how they have shaped our world, the ideologies behind them. Linnaeus’ binomial nomenclature, Roget’s thesaurus.
Paintings of overlapping map outlines based on the borders of countries and their antecedents at various points in time. Hope and respite from the absolutist nationalism that’s gripping much of the world today.
Paintings series exploring loss, erasure, disintegration. Created over decades, layers obscure earlier layers.Ceramic series with Deiniol Williams - one small piece for every word in the [Johnson’s/Chinese etc] dictionary. Abstract shapes based on my drawings.
