stuffworks
Stuffworks explores the stuff we accumulate and how we feel about it.
What is it and where did we get it? Is it trash or treasure?
If we have too much of it, how do we get rid of it?
The mound-like forms used for the work are inspired by terps - pre-medieval dwelling mounds in what is now Friesland and Northern Germany.
Constructed from organic materials like cow dung and turf, these mounds also contain ambiguous materials - pottery fragments, animal bones.
Were these rubbish or ritual deposits?
Combining my own stuff (piling up in my greenhouse) with the thoughts of other creative practitioners about their stuff, this multimedia installation moves from the personal to the public, connecting the paraphernalia of practice to global concerns about overconsumption, waste and the climate crisis.
Stuffworks consists of sculpture (stuffterp), film (stuff) and a series of wall pieces (wordterps).
It was created in 2023-2024 for my Contemporary Art and Archaeology MA final project at the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI).
Stuff, the film, has been screened at two film festivals so far:
Hull's Unthinkable short film festival
and Lewes-based Women over Fifty Film Festival (WOFFF), where it won a Commended Award for best student film.
The film can be viewed here.
What is it and where did we get it? Is it trash or treasure?
If we have too much of it, how do we get rid of it?
The mound-like forms used for the work are inspired by terps - pre-medieval dwelling mounds in what is now Friesland and Northern Germany.
Constructed from organic materials like cow dung and turf, these mounds also contain ambiguous materials - pottery fragments, animal bones.
Were these rubbish or ritual deposits?
Combining my own stuff (piling up in my greenhouse) with the thoughts of other creative practitioners about their stuff, this multimedia installation moves from the personal to the public, connecting the paraphernalia of practice to global concerns about overconsumption, waste and the climate crisis.
Stuffworks consists of sculpture (stuffterp), film (stuff) and a series of wall pieces (wordterps).
It was created in 2023-2024 for my Contemporary Art and Archaeology MA final project at the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI).
Stuff, the film, has been screened at two film festivals so far:
Hull's Unthinkable short film festival
and Lewes-based Women over Fifty Film Festival (WOFFF), where it won a Commended Award for best student film.
The film can be viewed here.
