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               7.5.08 Kingsland High Street from Boleyn Road - Click here to enlarge image 9.9.08 - Kingsland High Street - Click here to enlarge image 14.5.09 12th Floor B Block - Click here to enlarge image

Dalston construction 2008-11

200 drawings chart the transformation of Dalston, London. The area's innards are being laid bare.  I have spent 3 years drawing the upheaval: from the street, within the vast Dalston Square building site as artist in residence, and now (2011), with a new commission, from within one of the completed flats. An entirely new series of spaces began to materialize: the interior of the construction site seemed to run at a different time scale  to the rest of the city, revealing a condensed, compressed version of the life cycle of spaces evolving over a longer time span throughout the city as a whole.

7.8.08 - Dalston Junction - Click here to enlarge image 12.5.09 Top of library from external scaffold - Click here to enlarge image 9.8.08 Dalston Lane from next to Sheer Bliss - Click here to enlarge image

13.5.09 From 12th Floor B Block - Click here to enlarge image 15.5.09 8th Floor B Block - Click here to enlarge image 12.5.09 11th Floor B Block - Click here to enlarge image
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NEWS
Recent press -  Read a review of Archaeology of Urban time: drawing Dalston

Current solo show - Archaeology of urban time: drawing Dalston.  
27 September 2011  - 11 February 2012,
The Geffrye, Museum of the Home,
136 Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, London, E2 8EA.  Tues - Sat 10am -5pm, Sunday 12pm - 5pm.
















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