Artist, Educator, Facilitator
Artist, Educator, Facilitator
DeadReckoning is a 10 year project bearing witness to the many migrants and refugees who continue to die attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea in search of sanctuary and a better life. Begun in 2015 and comprised of a series of annual installations, the work takes the form of private vigil and public engagement. I manufacture thousands of origami paper boats at home and then invite the general public to collaborate in building an installation with me over several hours or days in museums, galleries and public spaces. Each tiny, hand-marbled paper boat is marked with a relationship to another person, a fragile reminder of the individuals caught up in the biggest humanitarian crisis in Europe since World War II.
Making the boats in private vigil
Exhibited in conjunction with Nine Lives at the Arcola Theatre, London.
Exhibited as part of the Refugee Week Festival at the British Museum in 2016.
Collaborative exhibition of DeadReckoning, RefugeesCrossing and A Polaroid For A Refugee (Giovanna Del Sarto) in Bexhill on Sea as part of the Hastings 1066 Festival.
Part of Counterpoint Arts’ Who are we? event at Tate Exchange in 2017, members of the public show each other how to build the installation.
Using the installation to discuss migration and identity as part of the Who are we? workshops at Tate Exchange.
Installed with visitors to the British Museum as part of Refugee Week..
Dead Reckoning Learning Lab Tate Exchange November 2018. An examination of the progress and proposed development of Dead Reckoning and RefugeesCrossing from 2015 - 2025
Detail from one year of Missing Migrants Project data, recording deaths in the Mediterranean Sea through fabric. Each missing person represented through painted and embroidered cloth squares, cut from clothes bought at the local Red Cross charity shop, which funds rescue missions picking up migrants at sea. This image is one of 241 yellow embroidered squares acknowledging those who went missing or who died in the Mediterranean Sea in September 2018.