Never Say Never Again, Winchester Gallery, Winchester School of Art,
7 November to 10 January 2026
A landmark celebration of a quarter-century of art and craft from the early programme of The Winchester Gallery — revisited, reviewed, and re-made — featuring work by artists who showed at the Gallery from 1985 onwards. Curated by John Gillett, Programme Lead Fine Art, Winchester School of Art.
Re-Surfaced. 2025.
This commission revisits four large scale steel sculptures made whilst I was Henry Moore Sculpture Fellow at Winchester School of Art in 1991. Made of steel offcuts and originally standing over 20 feet tall, the steel sculptures were balanced so that they could theoretically be gently rocked. For this exhibition, each of the four sculptures were scaled down (1:25), laser cut from recycled steel and then submerged within a bitumen block. Situated on a plinth, the form of the work whilst initially solid flows slowly over the plinth for the duration of the exhibition.
Reflecting on what it means to stage performative art today through materials associated with the oil industry and thinking with climate change, the work revisits a shift to my material inquiries whilst situating ongoing formal concerns critical to my practice over this period.
For a time-lapse recording of the work in progress, please follow this link (Opens Youtube)
