This work was generated for the purpose of reflecting on the institution as a labour-intensive process of continually bringing together and binding disparate and devalued materials to create new and unpredictable forms. I think of these as prototypes of “institutional experimentalism”. The constant process of restructuring and rebranding institutions is intentional in its disregard for what was. The new seeks to signal that previous ways of being have been left behind regardless of whether this is only enshrined in rhetoric, action plans and brand guidelines but is otherwise hollow and unstable. Stuck in an ongoing loop of becoming, these shells evidence an abandoned bricolage of unresolved ideologies operating in a no-man’s land of opposing political agendas. The process also serves to interrogate institutional hierarchies and consider ways in which deviations to top-down structures emerge.

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Lifeline: A Fish Rots from the Head Down, 2024, Acrylic on mixed media, 1040h, 660w,150d

A Stitch in Time: Your Ship is Sinking Below the Line, 2023, Acrylic on mixed media, 1700h, 600w, 540d

Strong Ties & Weak Ties, 2024, Acrylic on mixed media, 980h, 550w, 80d