Please Tell Me

140 x 140 cm; silk, paint, silkscreen, burn holes

Continuing with the ghost theme, Please Tell Me is based on an image I found of a spiritualist's automatic writing. It shows a frantic exchange between clairvoyant and spirit. I loved how it reveals how desperate we are for news from the "other side". It immediately made me think of our relationship with art. And if there are similarities, what this might reveal about the nature of an artwork. The screen-printed images in Please Tell Me are the start of an investigation into what for me what are ghostly moments in paintings and photos.

Page One with Charles Adrian

Page One, Vol. 45 by London Fields Radio on Mixcloud

My friend Charles Adrian interviewed me for "Page One", his book show on London Fields radio. Sitting in his top floor flat in Acton, and with me fuelled up on red wine, we talked about fairy tales, silk painting and Giorgio Moroder. Charles recommended to me "Sexing the Cherry" by Jeanette Winterson, an incredible book about a gigantic woman who lives by the Thames with her thirty dogs. It's about fables, love and how the imagination links us across time and space, and has already helped me see my practice in a new light (thank you Charles). I brought him "Not After Midnight", a typically gut churning Du Maurier short story about the relationship between hobby artist and collector. I even got to choose the music, well at least the first and last song (my current all-time favourites). In your face Desert Island Discs! Check it out. And if you you wanna book, Charles knows where to look. His show is great.