Tainted love
04:01
2023
Shot on location at Baird & Co, the UK’s largest gold refinery
Text: extracts
from Lomas’ lexicography - Provisional list; 2021
Structurally F~ucked, 2023 by Industria (ISBN 978-1-907529-34-4)
Published by a-n, 2023
Consultant editor for the report
Goldmother, 2022
Performance, with audio, at Hartslane Gallery
Feeding, 2022
Paper collage, 20 x 22.5 cm
Holding hands, 2022
Paper collage, 25.5 (h) x 27 cm
Care less, 2022
Paper collage, 27.5 (h) x 28 cm
My report Artists as Workers for the thinktank Autonomy
uses interviews with more than 20 artists and arts organisations to
shed light on working conditions, pay, and class barriers in the art
world - as well as the impact of the Covid pandemic on the UK’s visual
artists. Personal testimony sits alongside a bold set of policy
recommendations, offered as a starting point to a more just, equal and
inclusive art world.
Read it here
Who cares (detail)
2021
Paper collage installation; dimensions variable
See previous post
Who cares
2021
Paper collage installation; dimensions variable
Wall text:
This work might not be finished.
I
had a short window to get it done, but I spent most of that time
calling childminders and play clubs, trying to arrange adequate care for
my son so that I can be in my studio working.
I started the
collages several years ago, and they occasionally got adjusted or added
to, but I never had enough time to properly finish them.
Every
moment in the studio is rushed and decisions elude me. It seems
impossible to ever actually finish anything. I’m distracted by life,
childcare, caring for family, domestic responsibilities.
All motivated by love, of course.
(I’m not complaining).
And I love my work as an artist as well.
Yet it always seems to takes lower priority.
I
scold myself that art would come first for a proper artist. I should
love my work and be properly devoted, pulling all-nighters, undisturbed
by other distractions. But instead I’m overwhelmed by the shopping list,
tonight’s dinner, hanging out the laundry, making sure I’m not late for
pick up.
So I prepare.
I get things ready to make.
I work on ideas.
And occasionally I’m ready to make something.
But more often than not, time runs out and I don’t even know if it’s finished.They
invited artists to propose objects and images from their studios that
might be fragments, outliers or incomplete ideas, instead of resolved
works, with the aim of putting the working process at centre stage. I
took them at their word…