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Work by Title

• Documenta Kassel2002
• Frieze Art Fair2006
• Largess2009
• Mother: Emily Davison (1872-1913)2009
• Mother: Josephine Butler (1828-1908)2009
• Mother: Marie Stopes (1880 -1958)2009
• Mother: Mary Prince (1788 - c1833)2009
• Mother: Mary Seacole (1805-1881)2009
• Mother: Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)2009
• Mother: Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943)2009
• Mother: Ruth Ellis (1926-1955)2009
• Mother: Simone Weil (1909 -1943)2009
• Mother: Vera Brittain (1893 -1970)2009
• Places That Shaped Today's Middle East: Dead Fish on The Corniche2006
• Places That Shaped Today's Middle East: Introduction2006
• Places That Shaped Today's Middle East: Peace Monument with Bullet Holes2006
• Places That Shaped Today's Middle East: St George and The Dragon2006
• Places That Shaped Today's Middle East: The Road to Damascus2006
• Places That Shaped Today's Middle East: The Westminster Abbey of the Middle East2006
• Places That Shaped Today's Middle East: Three Wise Men with The Founder of Syria2006
• Places That Shaped Today's Middle East: Where the West Meets the Rest2006
• Street in Phoenix, Arizona2004
• The Chinese Labour Corps2001
• Theatre of War Triptych2001
• Wall In Volksrust, South Africa2003

Synopsis

In the early half of this decade I used, for the first time conventional photography which was then digitised e.g. Theatre of War triptych (2001) and Street in Phoenix, Arizona (2004). But time to make work and show it got less and less as my time was consumed, especially by joining the Kent Institute with the Surrey Institute of Art and Design to create a new specialist art and design university. I thought that if I didn't do this, the Kent Institute would become the art faculty of the University of Kent when I retired. So when the new University for the Creative Arts was finally launched in 2005, I was able to leave it in safe hands to concentrate entirely on my own work. Then in 2006, Nicholas Wegner and I were invited to reprise The Gallery for a survey exhibition of avant-garde art groups from the past. We re-presented 7th Kolner Kunstmarkt (1973) which I updated with photographs I had taken at Frieze 2006 as a plus ca change. In 2007 I held a solo show at Brick Lane of works from the Middle East. Although it was not a breakthrough for me, it was the first solo show I had held for over a decade. The breakthrough was Mother (2009) - life-sized portraits which were shown at Sadler's Wells, Chelsea Arts Club and Rochester Cathedral.