“Cone Stack”.

The temporary installation was created at South Beach in Whitehaven, West Cumbria on the 23rd December 2019.I used a cone that had drifted over from Ireland and used it to support a delicately balanced stack of stones. The whole structure needed support from driftwood branches .I like to combine natural and manmade materials and the artwork is a response to the ever increasing amount of plastic being deposited into the seas.The stack acts as a folly in highlighting how far plastic can roam the seas…the Cone was stamped with County Wexford made the Irish Sea crossing in a recent storm.Afterwards,I stored the cone behind some rocks,ready to be recycled again for future use.

“Pebble Spores”.

The temporary beach installation was created at South Beach, Whitehaven, West Cumbria in late December 2019.I picked highly colour contrasting pebbles from the tideline and balanced them into small stacks on a beach boulder backdrop. The vivid colours of the pebbles are eroded remains from slag waste emanating from an old coal mine on the beach front.The strong breeze made construction difficult as the top pebbles kept blowing off.

“Platform Carpet “

The temporary leaf installation was created at the platform edge of an abandoned railway station in Yeathouse,West Cumbria in October 2019.The arrangement contrasts with the seemingly haphazard backdrop of the leaf litter as the underlying platform slab highlights the arrangement.After photographing the intervention, a dog came from seemingly nowhere and ran through the artwork, destroying it in seconds.

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