Creation Of The Pleroma (after Marsden Hartley)

Creation of the Pleroma (after Marsden Hartley)

A4 collage, foil, pencil frottage, digital collage

From early Christian Gnosticism and the Nag Hamaddi library, the Pleroma is the Gnostic spiritual superstructure. It includes divine female spiritual elements, such as Sophia and, particularly, Barbelo, which resonates with me. In some versions of the Creation of the Pleroma, god gazes onto the sea (which serves as a mirror) and his reflection manifests as another, female, being – Barbelo. Out of this gender fluid, narcissistic moment, God’s son materialises and the Holy Trinity is formed. My version is even queerer still, including 50s and 70s male pinups and an image by Marsden Hartley, an under-appreciated gay American painter, who was working at the turn of the last century.

Monet’s bicycle

iPhone collage

Photos of bicycle and hermit’s grotto my own

A collage I am showing this month at The Tavistock and Portman Clinic.

Team: Winter Light

 Framed, 40 x 30 cm (SOLD) 

A combination of some older collage papers which I started working on in the nineties. The branches are from a magic tree in St Pancras Old Church Yard.

Do pop in to have a look 8am - 8pm, Monday - Friday until 31 January 2024. 

The exhibition is in the library corridor - check in at reception (they’ll give you a badge)…go through the doors on the left…then in the next main corridor, left again.

Please tell and bring your friends, family, colleagues, and anyone you think will be interested. 

Address: Tavistock Centre, 120 Belsize Lane, NW35BA 

Pictures are for sale.

Hi all

I'm showing some of my my small sculptures and a collage in this group exhibition in Peckham next week.

Do come if you're around.

I'll be at the private view on Thursday 28 September from 5:30 - 8:30pm.

And invigilating on Fri 29 Sept from 12 - 6pm.

Otherwise it's open 12- 6pm Wed - Sat next week.

Hope to see you there.

@spacesmarksthings

Hanged man

A4 notebook scan - collage cutouts

The Gospel according to Jacob

Collage - birch bark, envelope, folded laser jet print, acrylic paint on paper, other miscellaneous papers

35 x 21cm