Barbican in a Box

These paintings are all painted on cardboard box lids of various sizes and shapes. The vast majority come from the cardboard packaging from a Dyson fan we bought at the height of summer. It was an enormous expense but the packaging has proved to be an important raw material for my work (for sculptures made from this same packaging - see Barbicania page). In these works, I am tangibly experimenting with the way in which urban life can be constantly salvaged and recreated. This ties in with wider themes underlying my work: whether recycling can alleviate anxiety about the future and a debate about what and how to preserve our past in a rapidly growing urban environment. In addition, some of these images juxtapose urban and natural worlds in a narrative as an imaginative response to these questions.

The Longest Shadow, Podium, Barbican

Acrylic, Recycled palette papers, Ink on Recycled Cardboard from Dyson packaging

43.2 x 44.6 x 0.5 (unframed)

A Barbican Tale

Acrylic and ink on Recycled Cardboard Dyson Packaging

17.6 x 39 x 0.5

Sunset over the Barbican

Acrylic, charcoal, Recycled reversed palette paper, recycled cardboard packaging

25 x 73 x 0.5

Looking up at Brutalism, Sunbather in the Sculpture Court, Barbican

Acrylic, ink on cardboard

47 x 52 x 4 (framed with anti-reflective glass)

Sun in the Sculpture Court

Acrylic, ink on recycled cardboard

28 x 34 x 4 (framed with anti-reflective glass)

Final Act! (Barbican at Night)

Acrylic on recycled cardboard box from Umbra Wine

48 x 54 x 0.5

Act 1: Introducing the Barbican Forms

Acrylic, charcoal, recycled palette papers on a recycled Hunter Shoe-box lid

42.5 x 63 x 0.5

Corrugated City

Acrylic, builder's paint, recycled palette papers, charcoal, masking tape, corrugated cardboard packaging

48 x 49 x 0.1

The Barbican and the City in a Shoebox Lid

Acrylic, ink, shoe-box lid

21.5 x 35.5 x 0.5

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