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Les Boîns Guernésiais. 25 photographic images of baths. 1999.
Exhibited in Art For The Millenium, 2000.
Rural life throughout the British Isles is rapidly disappearing with formerly greenfield and glasshouse sites being covered with housing and light industry. Sales of milk, dairy products and beef are in steady decline. Baths, common interior domestic items, provide an external facility as cattle troughs. Many are made of cast iron, a metal that underpinned Victorian society and empire. But time does not stand still; these baths – as troughs – are rapidly being replaced by transportable galvanised tanks with troughs attached.
La Belle Dame Sans Merci d’l’Forêt.
This image alludes to the early Victorian school of artists The Pre-Raphaelites and the use they made of baths.
Collage and original photography. 53cm x 45cm. POA.
In The Frame. 5 dressing tables. 2003.
Exhibited at Albert House, 2003.
In Spring 2003 the US and British governments sent troops to Iraq. This artwork sets out to portray the grief and horror of military conflict from the (non-combatant) woman’s perspective.
Taking four wars of the twentieth century and the 2003 Iraq conflict (and other conflicts both present and future), each is represented by a period dressing table with appropriate accoutrements and iconic photographs.
The two shown here represent the First World War, with skeletal German corpse and the Gulf War (1991), with burnt out truck and charred corpses.
MDF, paint, props, enhanced copies of photographs. Sizes vary. POA.
Portsmouth Point. One of 12 works using the colour pink. 2004 – 2006.
For the artist, the colour pink signifies one of allure and sexuality, and with a darker, more serious undercurrent to it as well.
Soft wood, paper, handbag, Gripfill. 71cm x 67cm x10cm. £500.
Zero Thru Nine/Eleven (The Battle For God). 2002 - 2007
Exhibited in solo exhibition 2007.
The terrible events of 11 September 2001, brought to a head the continuing conflict between religious faiths. Is there a way to learn to live in tolerance of each other’s differences? Some of the phrases here are tenets of belief and others are catch-phrases; these take on enormous importance, such as ‘Nine Eleven’.
Perspex, stainless steel and silver leaf. 60cm x 32cm x 22cm. £2000.
Siblings.
Exhibited in solo exhibition, 2007.
The framed text on a golden background was written by the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the one lying on the ground by his sister Christina Rossetti. The upper one evokes lazy, hot summer at noon lying in a meadow looking up at the sky. The lower one evokes just the opposite – cold, bitter winter. The two are connected by a dragonfly described by Rossetti as ‘a blue thread hanging from the sky’. This artwork has personal connotations for the artist: his work in sign writing (the framed piece) and his sister's work in letter cutting in stone (the ground piece). In Spring 2005, their kid sister, Rebecca died from a brain tumour. She was a performance artist and is represented by the 'blue thread...' moving lightly between the two.
Wallpaper, timber, stainless steel and paint. 2.62m x 1.05m x 0.78m. POA.
Play Bach. Jonathan G Skelton
artcollective group show ‘Repetition’, September 2006.
Bach’s complex harpsichord work, the Goldberg Variations contains several repeats as the work builds up to one huge repeat, or as many repeats as the performer cares to play!
This artwork comprises the complete score laid out as a harpsichord shaped soundboard plus personal CD player. Our experience of receiving this music today is vastly different from that of the insomniac Keyserlingk for whom the music was written, as he listened to it through his eighteenth century wee small hours.
Plywood, paper, paint, electronics. 119 X 159 cms. £900.
ECO-ART PAC. Jonathan G Skelton
artcollective group show ‘Artcycle’, November 2008.
All artworks were either made from recycled material or were about recycling and ecology.
A commentary on critical art analysis, contemporary art practice and ecology.
Materials include plastic carrier bags, cereal boxes and art journals. Sizes vary.
PACS free. Book €5500.
