Press freedom - Newspaper artwork

Press freedom

This work was created around 2019, during a period of significant protests across Europe and globally. While these events seemed to address local issues, they were inextricably linked to broader global political trends. The newspapers used are all contemporary British dailies and weeklies, and the fragments and complete sentences visible in the piece reflect the…

Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait – Image of the artist’s hair

Lawrence Wahlstrom, a machinist, built The Do Nothing Machine—a creation containing a staggering array of gears and moving parts. Wahlstrom spent his entire life perfecting it, even as his colleagues dismissed it as a pointless endeavour. Yet today, while many of their “useful” machines have long since ended up in the bin, Wahlstrom’s so-called “useless”…