The John Ruskin Prize 2024 Exhibition

Seeing the Unseen, Hearing the Unspoken

Exhibition 1-17th February

plus Public Erasure - Stag Beetle

Open to all FREE EVENT

SATURDAY 17TH FEBRUARY 2024 1pm-3pm

at The Buoy Store, Trinity Buoy Wharf, 64 Orchard Place E14 0JW Exhibition open Monday-Friday 10am -5pm Saturday 10am - 4pm

The Erasure will be opened by ..TBC

Stag Beetles are fairly widespread in Southern England especially in the Severn Valley and coastal areas of the South West. Elsewhere they are extremely rare and even extinct. The main cause for their demise is loss of habitat, unfortunately, due to human activity. For gardens, woodlands, and parks there is a greater need to retain dead and decaying wood as part of the ecosystem.

The Trinity Buoy Store, Trinity Buoy Wharf, 64 Orchard Place, London E14 OJW

Shortlisted for The John Ruskin Prize as part of the exhibition

‘Public Erasure - Hedgehog’

Public Erasures are interactive works where I invite the public to erase my drawings of endangered species as well as Public Erasures - White Wash and Green Wash where the public erases a painted image with a particular strike through or obliterating mark. The interactive element combined with the subject matter offers both a visceral and intellectual experience.

Many of these drawings and paintings have in mind the ‘disappearing marks’ of a species that are in danger of being lost from our visual vocabulary.

Our actions or inactions to preserve the life of millions of species now will determine the fate of biodiversity and ultimately of life itself on Earth.

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