Carved from the industrial ghosts of the North East, this piece explores the tension between the artist’s heritage in Sunderland and the new, open spaces of life in Vietnam. Here the industrial past ceases to be a passive, visual reference and instead becomes the active psychological "glue" holding the internal space of the work together. This piece explores how memory operates as a physical, structural force—one that is pulled, tested, and stretched across an immense geographical distance.
The composition relies on a stark, mechanical tension. In the upper left quadrant, the hand-carved textures capture a raw, distressed grit, mimicking the coarse, pitted surface of heavily corroded ironwork. This deeply gouged, rusty texturing creates a brilliant visual friction against the rigid, unyielding geometry of the vertical plates and rivets.
Dominating the right side of the frame are the rivets. In heavy engineering, a rivet is designed explicitly to withstand tensile load—permanently binding massive steel plates together and locking the entire apparatus into a state of constant, invisible tension. Here, the rivets serve a deeply psychological purpose. They represent a fierce, structural connection to the North East; an internal framework that refuses to snap, its underlying strength continually measured and defined against the stark, high-contrast voids of the white paper.
2026
This is a linocut printed on lovely Arnhem 1618 white 245gsm paper.
From a limited edition of 25
Size: 19.2 cm x 27.5 cm (7.559 in x 10.827 in)
The work is signed and numbered by the artist.
Each linocut print will not be identical to the next, due to the nature of the printing process, but this adds to its unique quality.
Carved from the industrial ghosts of the North East, this piece explores the tension between the artist’s heritage in Sunderland and the new, open spaces of life in Vietnam. Here the industrial past ceases to be a passive, visual reference and instead becomes the active psychological "glue" holding the internal space of the work together. This piece explores how memory operates as a physical, structural force—one that is pulled, tested, and stretched across an immense geographical distance.
The composition relies on a stark, mechanical tension. In the upper left quadrant, the hand-carved textures capture a raw, distressed grit, mimicking the coarse, pitted surface of heavily corroded ironwork. This deeply gouged, rusty texturing creates a brilliant visual friction against the rigid, unyielding geometry of the vertical plates and rivets.
Dominating the right side of the frame are the rivets. In heavy engineering, a rivet is designed explicitly to withstand tensile load—permanently binding massive steel plates together and locking the entire apparatus into a state of constant, invisible tension. Here, the rivets serve a deeply psychological purpose. They represent a fierce, structural connection to the North East; an internal framework that refuses to snap, its underlying strength continually measured and defined against the stark, high-contrast voids of the white paper.
2026
This is a linocut printed on lovely Arnhem 1618 white 245gsm paper.
From a limited edition of 25
Size: 19.2 cm x 27.5 cm (7.559 in x 10.827 in)
The work is signed and numbered by the artist.
Each linocut print will not be identical to the next, due to the nature of the printing process, but this adds to its unique quality.