SELECTED WORK to 2016
CRACKS
small folded card | h 70mm x w 90mm | printed inkjet on 300gsm Bockingford watercolour paper | image of cracks on a temple wall, Myoshinji, Kyoto; with the quotation on the back from Leonard Cohen: ‘There is a crack in everything / That’s how the light gets in’ | 2016 | £3 | buy
SHIFT [5% | 10% | 5° ]
standing concertina | h 140mm x w 140mm, folded | printed inkjet on 300gsm Bockingford watercolour paper | each of the four segments is printed with a block of 5% black and a block of 10% black; in the first two segments the upper (5%) block shifts its angle by 5° left and right, in the second two segments the under (10%) block shifts its angle by 5° left and right | 2016 | £15 | buy
ON COMPLETENESS
handbound booklet | h 190mm x w 190mm, closed | printed inkjet on 300gsm Bockingford watercolour paper; linen thread | consists of two sheets, one making a cover, the second the inner page; when closed, the square is ‘completed’ | 2016 | £10 | buy
TWO FRAMES [2% 1% | 1% 2%]
handbound booklet | h 190mm x w 190mm, closed | printed inkjet on 300gsm Bockingford watercolour paper; linen thread | consists of two sheets, one making a cover, the second the inner page; the left hand square is a 2% frame and a 1% inner square; the right hand square is a 1% frame and a 2% inner square | 2016 | £10 | buy
1, 2, 3, 5, 7 %
handbound booklet | h 200mm x w 200mm, 20 pages, printed on 10 facing pages, including cover | alternating frames and blocks, printed in increasing tints of black from 1%, 2%, 3%, 5%, 7% | inkjet on 80gsm Hahnemuhle Sumi-e paper | handbound with linen thread | 2016 | £15 | buy
AGAIN
concertina | h 70mm x w 63mm, closed; h 70mm x w 380mm, open | printed inkjet on 300gsm Bockingford watercolour paper; comes with separate title card | six segments, with the text ‘over and over’ printed sequentially on both sides, creating an infinite turning experience | 2016 | £3 | buy
AN EMPTY SPACE
folded card | h 75mm x w 190mm, closed | printed inkjet on 300gsm Bockingford watercolour paper | 2016 | £3 | buy
LINE
handbound booklet | h 130mm x w 180mm, closed, 4 printed pages including cover | printed inkjet on 300gsm Bockingford watercolour paper; linen thread; two sheets | cover is an image from daikakuji temple, kyoto | printed with 10% black | 2016 | £10 | buy
EMPTINESS: A KEEPSAKE
small box | h 65mm x w 45mm | contains small empty glass bottle with cork seal h 45mm; closed with a clear elastic wrap | 2016 | £5 | buy
YOU ARE HERE
handbound booklet | h 150mm x w 150mm, 36pp | printed inkjet on 300gsm Bockingford watercolour paper | bound with linen thread | four phrases randomly throughout on 32 page sides: you are here, you are there, you were here, you were there | 2016 | £9 | buy
INSIDE
small black box | h 73mm x w 73mm | 2016 | £4 | buy
PRESENT
small booklet | h 70mm x w 150mm, folded | cover printed inkjet on 300gsm Bockingford watercolour paper; end papers are tracing paper; inner page 100 gsm paper | 2015 | £3 | buy
EXERCISE
folded object | h 70mm x w 95mm, folded; h 70mm x w 370mm extended | printed inkjet on 300gsm Bockingford watercolour paper | 2015 | £2.50 | buy
FIELD
booklet | h 160mm x w 160mm; 16 pages, including covers | each facing page (including cover) printed to edge with a block of a tint of black, with the size of the block increasing incrementally on each page by 2cm, and with the tint of black also increasing by 2% on each page, beginning with 2% tint in a 2cm block on the cover, and ending with a 16% tint and 16cm block on the final page | printed inkjet on Bockingford watercolour paper 300g | handbound with linen thread | 2014 | £20 | buy
3%-18%
booklet | h 200mm x w 200mm, 14 pages, printed on 6 facing pages | printed in increasing tints of black from 3%, moving up by 3% increments through the book to 18% on the final page. The tinted block begins at a height and width of 18cm, reducing through the book by increments of 3cm to 3cm on the final page | inkjet on 80gsm Hahnemuhle Sumi-e paper | handbound with linen thread | developed during a Research Residency in Artists’ Books at the Edinburgh College of Art Library, May 2014 | £15 | buy
10% 20% 30% CYAN
artists’ book | h 160mm x w 150mm; 12 pages, including covers | each facing page (including cover) printed a triptych of blocks of a tint of cyan, each page has a 10%, a 20%, and a 30% tinted block, with the position changing on each page, showing all the possible six positional variations through the book | printed inkjet on Bockingford watercolour paper 300g | handbound with linen thread | 2014 | £20 | buy
FIELD [3]
standing card | h 200mm x w 190mm (and with two 95mm folded back sides) | printed with thin 3mm vertical blocks of tints of black, starting at each edge at 30%, and moving down by 1% degrees until at 2% in the centre | printed inkjet on Bockingford watercolour paper 300g | 2014 | £15 | buy
MATERIAL | IMMATERIAL [2]
book | h 280mm x w 260mm, 12 pages, printed on 11 pages including front cover | printed with grayscale photographs of a patch of cloudy sky taken on 20 May 2014 | inkjet on 300gsm Bockingford watercolour paper | handbound with grey thread | developed during a Research Residency in Artists’ Books at the Edinburgh College of Art Library, May 2014 | exhibition copies only | a smaller version of this book is also available h 130mm x w 180mm £15 | buy
TEN FOLDS
mini-installation / loose leaf set of cards | 10 folded cards, 70mm x 70mm when folded | each card printed in a tint of black, tinted at graded percentages of 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 | supplied in clear acetate box, 80mm x 80mm x 80mm, with cover card | designed to be displayed and arranged in various ways, either in descending or ascending lines, or in a circle, mixed or in sequence, or to be kept boxed | printed inkjet on Bockingford watercolour paper 300g | 2013 | out of print
OPEN SLOWLY
small box | h 60mm x w 80mm x d 26mm | texts printed inkjet on Bockingford watercolour paper 300g | 2013 | £4 | buy
WHY
tiny booklet | h 60mm x w 60mm | yellow text | printed inkjet on Bockingford watercolour paper 300g 2013 | £1 | buy
PHASES
small concertina | h 70mm x w 70mm when closed | each segment printed with two circles; 1: circles of 5% and 8% tint of black, through printer once; 2: circles also of 5% and 8% tint of black but through printer twice to create overlap, overprinted; 3: circles of 5% and 13% through printer once; 4: circles also of 5% and 13%, overprinted; 5: circles of 5% and 18% through printer once | printed inkjet on Bockingford watercolour paper 300g | 2013 | £4 | buy
A BOOK OF HOURS
book | h 120mm x w 130mm; 8 inner pages, interleaved with tracing paper | each page printed with a tint of black or cyan to reflect a time of day taking direction from calls to prayer: 1: matins, during the night, ‘morning watches 90% black; 2: lauds, dawn, 40% black; 3: prime, early morning, 10% black; 4: terce, mid-morning, 10% cyan; 5: sext, midday, 20% cyan; 6: none, mid afternoon, 20% black; 7: vespers, evening, sunset, lighting of the lamps, 40% black; 8: compline, night, before sleep, 80% black | printed inkjet on Bockingford watercolour paper 300g | handbound with linen thread | 2013 | £12 | buy
MEDITATION
book | h 120mm x w 370mm; 4 pages, including covers | each of the two inner pages printed with a horizontal tint of 1% and of 2%, separated by a thin 3mm line, unprinted; 1: 1% over 2%; 2: 2% over 1% | printed inkjet on Bockingford watercolour paper 300g | handbound, Japanese binding with linen thread | 2013 | £20 | buy
BECOMING STILL
card | h 75mm x w 105mm | cyan text | printed inkjet on Bockingford watercolour paper 300g | 2013 edition | £3 | buy
LIGHT
card | h 100mm x w 105mm | pale cyan text | printed inkjet on Bockingford watercolour paper 300g | 2013 edition | £3 | buy
IMPALPABILITY
book | h 95mm x w 175mm; 12 pages, including covers | each facing page printed to edge with a 10% tint of black, including front cover | printed inkjet on Bockingford watercolour paper 300g | handbound with linen thread | 2013 | £9 | buy
PRIMES / CIRCULAR PRIMES
two cards | h 120mm x w 120mm | using a grid numbered 1-100, with 1-10 across the top line, 2-20 the next etc, each prime number is printed tinted at its percentage in black, so the prime number 13 square is tinted at 13% | printed inkjet on Bockingford watercolour paper 300g | 2013 | £3 per card | buy (squares) | buy (circles)
MATERIAL | IMMATERIAL
book | h 130mm x w175mm, 12 pp, including cover | 11 images, photographs of the shadows of trees and shrubs on city paving taken during the summer of 2012 | printed inkjet on Bockingford watercolour paper 300g; bound with linen thread | 2012 | £15 | buy
FORMS OF GREY
small standing book | h 90mm x 55mm, 16pp, including cover | small booklet designed to be stood with pages slightly fanned | each page contains two grey circles, printed in black tinted at graded percentages of 20, 15, 10, 5 | printed inkjet on Bockingford watercolour paper 300g; bound with linen thread | 2012 | £7 | buy
POINT OF VIEW
book | h 120mm x w 190mm, unfolded h 120mm x w 380mm, made from two pieces of card | inner sheet of card is torn creating wavey line | single folded book designed to be read forwards and then upsidedown backwards, with covers being both the front page and the back page | front cover title in cyan blue: skyline; back cover title in cyan blue: tideline | printed inkjet on Bockingford watercolour paper 300g | 2012 | £10 | buy
MEDITATION
small square booklet | h 70mm x w 70mm, 16pp, not including covers or end papers | each facing page has two lines of text: ‘grey grey grey’; each line of text varies in its shade of grey, black printed at tinted percentages ranging in bands of 5% from 40 to 15% | cover printed inkjet on Bockingford watercolour paper 300g; end papers in tracing paper, inner pages in 100g wove paper; bound with linen thread | 2012 | £5 | buy
SEEING
small fold-out booklet | h 50mm x w 80mm, cover with one single fold-out centre page, making four sections each with a brief text; bound with grey thread | printed inkjet in two shades of grey on white 100g wove paper; cover in off-white hammer card | 2012 | £3 | buy
THING
small concertina | h 50mm x w 50m when folded; h 50mm x w 210mm when fully unfolded | printed inkjet on both sides in light-weight watercolour paper in grey ink | designed to be read on one side then on reverse, making a circular reading experience | supplied in a small square manilla envelope, printed with the title | 2012 | £2 | buy
SLOW
folded card | h 210mm x w 60mm | printed inkjet on Bockingford watercolour paper 300gsm in grey | supplied with ivory wove envelope | 2012 | £3 | buy
YELLOW
small card | h 80mm x w 80mm | printed injet on Bockingford watercolour paper 300g in grey and yellow | supplied with yellow envelope | 2012 | £3 | buy
A TOOL FOR REFLECTION
small mirror, diameter 55mm | back of mirror pale colour background with the text: ‘a tool for reflection’ | 2012 | £3 | buy
A BOOK OF TEARS
booklet | h 105mm x w 148mm | grey card cover; ten inner torn sheets | 2006 | £5 | buy
LANDSCAPE
booklet | w 148mm; h varies | consisting of 5 torn sheets | 2010 | £5 | buy
PAUSING HERE
card | 2008 | £3 | buy
IS THAT AN ISLAND
card | 2008 | £3 | buy