Inspiration: Preserve Beauty

Anya Gallaccio is an artist who works with organic materials such as flowers, fruit, sugar and ice to create (largely) impermanent artworks that change over time. Preserve Beauty (1991) is one of my favourite pieces of her work. Several hundred red gerbera flowers are pressed and held behind a sheet of glass and left to…

Inspiration: Surrealism

I was commissioned to make an artwork for Surreal Solihull, a public art project with Solihull Council in collaboration with public art consultant/curator Ruth Millington. This is a bit about where I got my inspiration from as well as details of the brief and the exhibition. The Brief The artist’s brief was create new work…