‘Stacks’ are an ongoing series of paintings and drawings inspired by porcelain forms (phossils) I like to stack up as still lifes in the studio. For me they become fossilised totems of photographs. Totems, historically, were primarily vertical poles/structures with visual representations of kinship, depicting family crests and clan membership. In other words they were stories embedded into a solid vertcial form recounting the past. The difference with these stacks/totems being that you only get glimpses of the story within each photograph as each one obscures the one beneath it. With others, there is little information or none on each layer and one is only left with a notion of time as with the layers in geological strata.

Image 1 – ’Stack 04/02/22 18:43pm’ – 24cm x 32cm, inks and graphite wash, 300gsm paper
Image 2 – ’Stack 02/02/22 14:12pm’ – 24cm x 32cm, crayon and graphite wash, 300gsm paper
Image 3 – ‘Episodic Stack 28/01/22 13:20pm’ 50cm x 65cm, phthalo blue ink and graphite wash, 200gsm
Image 4 – ’Summer Stack 03/02/22 15:33pm’  – 24cm x 32cm, crayon and graphite wash, 300gsm paper
Image 5 – ’Stack 11/02/22 12:43pm’- 24cm x 32cm, crayon and graphite wash, 300gsm paper
Image 6 – ’Stack 02/02/22 15:31pm’ – 24cm x 32cm, crayon and graphite wash, 300gsm paper 
Image 7 – ’Red Car Stack 07/02/22 11:37pm’ – 21cm x 29.7cm, inks, crayon and graphite wash, on japanese kraft from Ito Bindery 
Image 8 – ’Hike Stack 08/02/22 12:32pm’ – 21cm x 29.7cm, inks, crayon and graphite wash, on japanese kraft from Ito Bindery 
Image 9 – ’Stack 26/01/22 11:44pm’ – 21cm x 29.7cm, inks, crayon and graphite wash, on japanese kraft from Ito Bindery 
Image 10 – ’Stack 24/02/22 17:40pm’ – 21cm x 29.7cm, inks, crayon and graphite wash, on japanese kraft from Ito Bindery 
Image 11 – ’Stack 24/01/22 16:58pm’ – 21cm x 29.7cm, inks, crayon and graphite wash, on japanese kraft from Ito Bindery 
Image 12 – ’Stack 24/01/22 14:27pm’ – 21cm x 29.7cm, inks and crayon, on japanese kraft from Ito Bindery