Glass fronted wooden box (75 x 80 x 6cm) containing nine klecksographic prints on paper produced using hand-made ink. Images resemble butterflies or moths, viewed as part of a collection in a Paradox Box.

During lockdown I entered into dialogue with Rockingham Castle staff and requested essential ‘ingredients’ to be sent to me in Glasgow. These included Oak galls from the trees in the castle grounds and metal from the locks inside the castle itself. This connection with the ground staff and domestic team helped forge a sense of physical connection to the site and it's history.

Boiling the metal and oak galls together to make ink, I used paper gifted by the castle to create hundreds of prints and drawings. The process was one of responding to the interplay of ink and paper and being alive to the countless possibilities of chance and material agency. Amongst many other things I took inspiration from the ‘elephant hedge’ in the castle grounds which appears to reveal and conceal many hidden forms.

The Paradox Box work is one part of a larger installation made for the wooden 'Panel Room' in Rockingham Castle. The work is shown in the Annex Gallery for the first time outside of the context it was intended for, now as part of a much larger Salon hang where the autonomy of each work must be retained.

Work shown as part of 'Salon des Inclusion' exhibition at GSA, Stow Building, 22 March - 19 April, 2024.

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