A television newsreader recounts the minutiae of small-town life with due solemnity, but reveals a disturbing element of anarchic behaviour amongst the town’s old-age pensioners. …
The News (1980)
The Object of Desire
“After having developed The Inevitability of Colour a stage further with Echo’s Revenge, I realised I had another step to go – I had to visualise the fascination that Narcissus had experienced whilst being enchanted by his own image – a punishment from Nemesis in response to the prayers from a youth whom Narcissus had spurned. …
The Parallel
The Parallel is intended as an illustration of a confused and frustrated man who cannot decide if he has made the right decision on which direction to take, …
The Question is… Is this art? Is this entertainment?
Leaflet detailing information on the artist and recent works, including ‘The Question Is’.pdf here …
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The Room with a View
Description and explanatory information on video works: The Room wih a View, 1982. Exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art, …
The Sands of Time
“This piece began as a snatched phrase rattling around my head.
‘Footprints on the sands of time…’, had lodged itself in my mind until I had to find out where it came from, …
The Sermon (1983)
An increasingly manic diatribe in godspeak by a fundamentally unhinged priest who fulminates against the sins of the flesh.
A middle-aged Catholic priest fulminates in an increasingly grotesque manner on the thesis that “the inhumane imposition of law is obscene”. …
The Sid Presley Experience – Public Enemy No 1
The Singer: A Video Portrait of Sally Burgess
The Sister’s Story?
Film and Video Artists on Tour programme, 1985. pdf here
‘I Am…[The Sister’s Story, Untitled, Hannah’s Song] Felicity Sparrow, …