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Work by Title

• A Case for Wittgenstein1969
• A Day at The Seaside1967
• A Lavatory Palace Hotel Firescreen1969
• A Quirkish Radiogram1969
• A Woman's Eye View of The World1969
• Carte Blanche1967
• General MacArthur1965
• Grave Joke1969
• Horse Play1967
• Ku Klux Klan1964
• Lardface Lazarus' Remarkable Recovery1968
• Ludwig Wittgenstein's Palace of Pun1968
• Quirks of Art1969
• The Drunken Clergyman1967
• The Wittgenstein Lectern1969
• What's in a Name?1967
• Wimpey Tree1966

Synopsis

Soon after arriving at art school in 1963 I became interested in the relationship between words and objects and I took on political topics e.g. Ku Klux Klan (1964). But I found politics a too competitive vehicle to explore words and objects and in 1967 discovered Wittgenstein. In 1968 while at Goldsmiths' I invented Pun-sculptures and in 1970 my Slade graduation show consisted entirely of them e.g. The Wittgenstein Lectern (1969). Later that year I showed Pun-sculptures at the ICA and the Young Contemporaries.