God I  
iron on ebony base
3.5 x 9.5 x 17 cm
2003

Untitled
iron on ebony base
3.5 x 9.5 x 16.3 cm
2003

The artist as hunter gatherer is shown here, an Autolycus delving and scavenging in Peckham and Oxford. Artists thrive on what has been discarded. The rusted iron comes from weekend walks to Port Meadow passing through the Lucy ironworks factory. Each transit yielded new treasures of random shapes, whether of rejected castings or of solidified metal puddles which had fallen from the jolted lorries moving scrap from one part of the works to the other. These I have combined, by pinning or welding, into the idols and fetishes of imaginary shrines. Lucy's move has now bought this adventure to an end.

From the exhibition notes to Red Handed (with Lucy)
Christ church Picture Gallery Oxford 2003