Wish You Were Here

“Wish you were here” had its starting place in Robert Smithson’s “Monuments of Passaic”. Twenty bike racks in Norwich were photographed, from a low angle, as they were used, between July and October 2017, mapping a relationship that an everyday life has to physical locations. These captured moments of connection were then explored further: in postcard-sized paintings in which the photographed bike is not represented; in postcard-sized collages where the bike racks are absent and areas of the background are revealed to be existing; and in square collages where the rack exists on a subconsciously painted ground. This created a set of twenty triptychs which were exhibited collectively in “Transitory”, MA Interim show, at NUA in November 2017.