Listen uP!
2024Beecroft Gallery
Mixed media, sound sculpture, cardboard, plastic and metal
A burnt out drum, a tangled head of conduit piping, a pier recording from the longest in the world.
In Charles Pears’ Bathing Buoy (1934) These rebellious swimmers are sounding the alarm. Listen uP! Is a play on a warning system taken from the End of the Pier, the world’s longest.. End of! The burnt out contents might reflect the missed warnings of the past fires, crashing boats and burst blood vesseled faces. Stand close enough with your ear to the fire, you might just hear the not so distant chimes and the not so subtle disapproval of an entitled bystander wrapped up in some past sense of glory.
