Divine Cosmonauts A series of decorative miniature ceramic plates altered with impermanent marker, adding halos and space helmets. They are part of an ongoing project exploring the parallels and interplay between outer space and religious imagery. The project focuses in particular on animal astronauts that were sent into space, referencing the ceramic merchandise that was produced as part of the …
By the Seashore By the Seashore is the centre piece in this show. A bold unapologetic statement about plastic waste and its impact on marine life in our seas and oceans. “The old fishing nets and the dried-up seaweed was found on a beach during my first trip out post-lockdown. They have been shaped into one, you can’t untangle one …
Exploring the immensely rewarding relationship that is being a human lucky enough to live with cats in their life. A lifetime of bottled up cats and art flow out. A journey of love and loss, of joy and pain. In 2016 the celebrated feline The Bear died. Jo instinctively drew the small black sad cat in black biro in her …
My Tiny Cat Gallery is a small cardboard box staffed and visited by tiny plastic cats. Curated by Lisa Cole each exhibition at the Tiny Cat Gallery encourages us to see artwork from a different perspective. In the gallery space A4 artworks are huge and domineering. For more information and details about submitting a proposal please check the Tiny Gallery …
My Tiny Cat Gallery is a small cardboard box staffed and visited by tiny plastic cats. Curated by Lisa Cole each exhibition at the Tiny Cat Gallery encourages us to see artwork from a different perspective. In the gallery space A4 artworks are huge and domineering. For more information and details about submitting a proposal please check the Tiny Gallery …
What is the Tiny Cat Gallery? The Tiny Cat Gallery was originally a cardboard box painted in Farrow & Ball matt Stiffkey Blue. It was staffed by small plastic cats. Sadly a terrible fire halted renovations after a very well received Summer 2020 season of artists. The culprits were identified as the twins who conveniently went on holiday the day …
Tiny Cat Gallery is a collaborative lockdown project inspired by Lizzie Donegan. Lizzie ran an art exchange to explore spontaneity and playfulness in art making. When I displayed her work in my house I was struck by two insights. The first was that it felt like I had a guest who commanded respect in the house. The second insight was …
Limited edition of 24 drawings by birds and wind, each drawing represents 12 hours or day or night. I get ear-worms of poetry sometimes. Recently I’ve been plagued by this quote from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake. ”How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d …
This project is a collaboration with poets via social media. Using a combination of the shape, meaning and feeling of the poem I translate the written words into three dimensional solid forms. This is part of a long term project which seeks to turn the intangible into tactile and solid objects. The poems are short and written using random or …
Terracotta platter decorated with white earthenware slip. 30cm diameter. 10cm tall. Functional prototype for the Visible and Tactile Sound Series. This platter tested the idea of slip trailing via a pendulum.