There are tides in the body, 2023

screenprint with tidal mud, a collaboration with Conway and Young

During Spike Island Open Studios 2023, artists, Conway and Young and I produced a run of 2 limited edition prints, that we printed live, using tidal mud from the river Avon

The prints are designed by Conway and Young - text works that relate to my new project, MY WITS OR SALTS - which departs from the question:- “what does it mean to make visible the systems that deal with our bodily waste?”

Visitors to Spike Open were invited to join us in Conway & Young’s studio, pull a print (which will also be available to keep/buy) and chat about waste (leaky bodies, privatisation of water, where does it all go when u flush the loo…..?)….

There are a choice of two text works:

🚽’My wits or salts’ - the title of my project and a line from a devastating poem by Susan Hahn about emotional incontinence and leaky heartbreak (Incontinence, 1993)

🚽’There are tides in the body’- a quote from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (1925) which perfectly encapsulates our transcorporeality and the inseparability of flows of waste and water and bodies.

The remaining prints were then available to buy for £10. The first run has now sold out but we intend to make a second edition in the latter half of 2024.