Endz of the World

Endz of the World is the body of work made over a two-year UAL 20/20 residency at Wolverhampton Art Gallery, in conversation with the gallery's nineteenth- and twentieth-century industrial paintings by Edwin Butler Bayliss, Arthur Lockwood, and Harry N. Eccleston. Those paintings romanticise the Industrial Revolution and omit its human cost. The residency was an attempt to look at the same ground from the other end of the labour line.

The work moves through composite image-making, photopolymer etching, sculpture, and film. Each photopolymer intaglio monoprint was made at Thameside Print Studio using a process related to photolithography, the same technique used to pattern silicon chips. Each monoprint is unique. The sculpture, Flop H-100 E: Neural Surge, rebuilds a Black Country foundry as silicon architecture: factory chimneys become heat sinks, terraced houses fuse with circuit traces. A photopolymer etching, I wake up and find myself in an excluded world, was acquired into the Wolverhampton Art Gallery permanent collection.

The work was exhibited as Endz of the World, Coded Furnaces at Wolverhampton Art Gallery in 2025, and as artist film screenings at Chelsea Space, Chelsea College of Arts, in summer 2025. Part of UAL 20/20, the Decolonising Arts Institute programme supported by Freelands Foundation and Arts Council England.