Trolley
Houghton festival, houghton hall, Norfolk 2017
An original David Greig shopping trolley (a British supermarket that closed in 1972). Covered in calcium deposits from years of weathering in a canal, its form remained largely the same. The shopping trolley symbolises taking more than we can handle, stocking ourselves up and securing our food supply: basic instinct and excess.
Welded metal, Kennet and Avon - canal soaked - 46 years aged - shopping trolley, steel rebar, steel grids and found tractor wheel
320 x 240 x 110 cm
An original David Greig shopping trolley (a British supermarket that closed in 1972). Covered in calcium deposits from years of weathering in a canal, its form remained largely the same. The shopping trolley symbolises taking more than we can handle, stocking ourselves up and securing our food supply: basic instinct and excess.
Rituals form a key part of social interactions. For example, the daily ritual of collecting food and how we do that profoundly affects our landscape and lived experience. Cities are shaped into finite urban forms through our social interactions, methods of storage and survival, in a continuous cycle.
Hollington Cross, Newbury, RG20 9SE
Learning to weld with Nick at Hollington Forge was a key development in the piece. However, the wisdom imparted by craftsman Nick during this time stretched beyond that of welding and into everyday life and art.