Alesund Whale

Alesund whale goes to Ny Alesund!

As I have previously mentioned I often buy fabric when I visit places, and on a short stop over on the Norwegian coastal town of Alesund in 2011 I happened upon a craft and fabric shop where I spied a rather garish woven remnant in orange and turquoise in the sale bin.  As I suspected it made a lovely whale, one …

The Great Heidelberg Tun

The Fabric whales – what’s all that about then?

For many years Melville’s classic Moby Dick has been at the heart of my work, but I always shied away from producing work with obvious whale imagery as it never felt like it was truely my work. It was not until 2008 that I saw my first whales in the wild (killer whales in Scotland), and even they didn’t really fit …

Introduction

Artists Statement I read Moby Dick in the summer of 2001 and had I known, I wouldn’t have picked it up.  I should have guessed how dangerous a book it could be as I was lead to it by seeing some of the huge body of work that American abstract artist Frank Stella had made in response to the work.  …