Artist Statement

It's cheap. 
Easy to collect and store. 
A public statement, experienced in the privacy of your home. 

Self-published, it can reach the hands of a person who might not even suspect they are holding an art object in their hands. Accessible, I hope, but demands your time. It's not a quick read. 

Ironically as more bookshops are closing, and more people are reading on the screen, the art book is having a revival. Publishing seems to give artists an autonomous space within the art industry and a possible replacement to the white cube gallery space.

For me, it has always been about the appeal of combining text and image on a page, re-inventing the structure of reading and seeing images in order to create new meanings. I have been conceptualizing, designing and printing books, magazines, newspapers, postcards and printed ephemera for twenty five years. 

Each one of my books is different, I don't follow the traditional arc of the artist who is devoted to one idea. My work starts with a real experience but also includes research. The process of making the books has taken me to a variety of places, from internet sex rooms, to scientific illustrations, from academic pomp and circumstance, to making bombs. 

Our espresso machine is broken today, but come, sit down, read a book or mail a postcard.  
The Bookshop is open.