Over the past 5 years I have been photographing and documenting the ever-changing configurations of over-painted erasures of graffiti made by council workers in Brighton and London. The most recent group of these painted acts of concealment are the ‘Bridge’ series which are photographs taken on a slip-road bridge into London. The title ‘Bridge’ has a double meaning. Firstly, it’s the location of the photographs and secondly, I think of the images themselves as bridges between the worlds of visual experience: painting and photography; the gallery and the street. As the series of photographs developed over several years the focus of attention shifted from the found, unintentional paintings and the various artists to which they inadvertently seemed to allude to, to an interest in the relation with the frame. Soft pastel colours juxtapose the rusted structure of the bridge which now spanned a separation in time: Edwardian England and the contemporary world and the framing devices of museums and engineers.
Bridge (2022-24) 8x10 inch Archival gicle print.
Bridge II (2022-24) 8x10 inch Archival gicle print.
Bridge III (2022-24) 8x10 inch Archival gicle print.
Bridge IV (2022-24) 8x10 inch Archival gicle print.
Bridge V (2022-24) 8x10 inch Archival gicle print.
Bridge VI (2022-24) 8x10 inch Archival gicle print.
Bridge VII (2022-24) 8x10 inch Archival gicle print.