Gold paper Pineapple W90 x H120 x D9cm  box framed artwork with hand sculpted signature.

This golden piece pays homage to the exuberant Baroque period of the 16-1700’s. As this movement was designed to give unreserved emphasis to all forms of creation and self expression, one material stood out above all others, gold.

Since gold strongly represented status, affluence and extravagance, it was crucial to pair it with the most superior complimentary colour, teal.

Black & White marbled paper Pineapple W90 x H120 x D9cm  box framed artwork with hand sculpted signature.

This monochrome piece pays homage to the art of paper marbling, a highly skilled and valuable craft used to cover the very record books defining human history and natural world discoveries. Most notably the discovery, transportation, propagation, usage and symbolic value of the Pineapple.

Marbled paper Pineapple W90 x H120 x D9cm  box framed artwork with hand sculpted signature.

This piece pays homage to the colours of the British monarchy, using shades of blue, red, green and brown. All classic, strong and stable by nature.

From as early as the 1700’s, marbled paper became the primary material choice to cover the very record books that defined human history and natural world discoveries. Most notably the discovery, transportation, propagation, usage and symbolic value of the Pineapple.

The pineapple’s rapid rise in value meant it’s symbolic status followed suit, adorning palace gates, architecture and furniture throughout the highest circles of western society.

Holographic paper Pineapple W85 x H110 x D9cm  box framed artwork with hand sculpted signature.

This holographic piece looks at another dazzlingly valuable natural resource and our relationship toward it, diamond.

I wanted to make the sculpture resemble a cut diamond pineapple sitting on a deep grey satin cushion. As priceless and rare as indeed the pineapple became during the early 1800’s.

Multi textural black paper Pineapple W85 x H110 x D9cm box framed artwork with hand sculpted signature.

The all black pineapple was designed to act as a reflection of our souls, because all you see as you gaze into the depths of its elegant and textured body, is it’s form. It shows you everything, yet nothing. It feels sensual, sublime, imposing yet chaotic.

The black form of the sculpture has left its viewers feeling spell bound and affected. There is much beauty to be found in chaos, and although black does not, and should not, represent negativity, it is by far the most misunderstood of all the ‘colours’ and the one that still keeps us guessing.

The hope is that by showing this naturally colourful, exotic, strange and much celebrated tropical fruit in black, that it makes us question what ‘value’ means to us as humans, and of course, what we’re prepared to do to acquire it.

Green marbled paper Pineapple W50 x H70 x D9cm  box framed artwork with hand sculpted signature.

This piece was first and foremost about colour. Green and orange combined in this context began to represent growth and creativity. The green marbled paper pineapple expressing the perfect imperfection of nature, and the burnt orange mount suggestive of fire, passion, newness and creative beginnings.

This sculpture sits in a handmade box frame, glazed with recycled clear acrylic.

Metallic Copper paper Pineapple W50 x H70 x D9cm  box framed artwork with hand sculpted signature.

Since colour is powerful enough to influence how we feel as human beings, this piece was very much led by what was going on in the fashion industry at the time. Although copper is commonly regarded less favourably than its other metallic peers, it has a very unique value to it and is one of the most important catalysts in human advancement. The mirrored warmth that copper offers, could only have been paired with another undervalued but effortlessly beautiful colour, vintage pink.

As these two colours created depth and elegance, it felt necessary to offer the ordinarily dry and less memorable fruitlet husks a loud and punchy voice of their own, blue.

This sculpture sits in a handmade box frame, glazed with recycled clear acrylic.

Through a mutual appreciation of totemic structures, Wilma and I created this set made of exotic fruit. Since 'The exotic' is a prominent theme throughout my work it made sense to build our totems using as many weird and wonderful fruits as possible. The colours and textures available are astounding.

We wanted to treat the fruits as legitimate sculptural medium by carving them into geometric shapes yet allowing their natural beauty to do the talking.

It was an exercise of finding perfection in imperfection! 

Fruit is after all a physical mass like clay and wood is, but fruit is unequivocally more beautiful in all its variety of colour and form. Removing the automatic association to being a part of our diet, it perhaps allows us to appreciate fruit from a fresh angle.  

An 'Other Worldly' still life project with WILMA. These pictures were designed to evoke the familiarity we have in our journey's, discoveries, dreams and fears.

This self initiated project was born from my curiosity of all things curious, particularly from a Victorian science and exploration point of view.

I wanted to make a series of paper constructed studies of these subjects, to try to excersie my keen interest in them by sculpting detailed clones using only paper and glue.

Photography by WILMA

This series of abstract paper cut relief sculptures are made entirely out of the ‘off cuts’ or waste material from the Pineapple sculpture series.

Waste material is normal and inevitable in sculpture, but I wasn’t convinced that it ended there, by disposing of everything no longer required.

These off cuts are, after all, the negative reflections of the piece intended for use. Each piece holds the same quality of line and texture.

The concept behind this series was to create abstract sculptures that reflected the hero sculptures they were cut from, something that will be playing an important role in all future artworks in the effort to work more sustainably.

These floral concept sculptures were commissioned by Milliner Piers Atkinson for a new collection he was planning. Although they were unused, I loved making them as it allowed me to really push what was possible with metallic papers sculpturally.

Made using 220 gsm gold coated paper and acrylic paint