Flight One

1993

triptych:

oil on hessian

244 x 394cm

I arrived in the UK in 1988 and settled in southeast London in Deptford. In 1992 I joined the Art House and took up a studio in the old Victorian school on Hilly Fields. The Art House was a charity set up to provide studios for artists, exhibition space, and art services to the community. I later became a trustee of the group.
Somewhere in that time I acquired three panels which had been covered in hessian. I had for some time been interested in creating a large-scale work which gave the impression of a zoetrope with ten apertures.
The studio at Hilly Fields, being an old classroom, was quite large and I was able to do photographic representations to scale which provided references for both the circular structure and the figurative central form.
The resulting work, Flight One, had its first outing in my 1993 solo exhibition Thirty-Three and a Third at the Art House Gallery and has been exhibited twice since.