Circe's Island # 2 on show in E14

I was delighted to be invited to join the 'Winter Menagerie' exhibition by Tondo Cosmic at 48 Aberfeldy St, London E14 from 28 November - 21 December  (open Thurs, Fri, Sat 12-5pm). Tondo Cosmic Projects was set up by artists Tamsin Morse and Jo Chate to promote conversation in interesting locations throughout London and the UK.

I'm showing Circe's Island # 2 - a hand finished giclée print (edition of 40). I created the work in VR using imported images and 3D models which I blended together - the head and shoulders are my own, a 3D model of a scan by VR artist Sean Rodrigo. The 'island' is a model of an actual island that I carved in polystyrene with artists Pamela Sullivan, Shoran Jiang, Marie Mairs and my assistant Terri Broughton for the Odyssey: Explorations exhibition at Tate Exchange Liverpool in 2019. Once the digital prints are made I paint additional details so each print is slightly different.

As always, I remain gripped by the Greek myths and I don't believe for one minute that Circe was heartbroken when Odysseus left her island - given that she had already turned some of his men into pigs, because they were behaving like pigs, I'm sure that she couldn't wait to see the back of him!

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