Endz of the World · 2023–2025 · Photopolymer etching, sculpture, film · Wolverhampton Art Gallery · Chelsea Space
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.
I worked with software engineers to build a database from the gallery's public-domain collection scans and mid-twentieth-century images of empire workers. We tagged everything and trained a dedicated machine learning model. The model made images from prompts I wrote — pulled from research, local testimony, the same ground as the paintings on the walls upstairs.
The work moves through photopolymer etching, sculpture, and film. Each 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. A photopolymer etching, I wake up and find myself in an excluded world, was acquired into the Wolverhampton Art Gallery permanent collection.
Exhibited as Endz of the World, Coded Furnaces at Wolverhampton Art Gallery, June–September 2025, and as artist film screenings at Chelsea Space, Chelsea College of Arts. Part of UAL 20/20, the Decolonising Arts Institute programme supported by Freelands Foundation and Arts Council England.
The centrepiece of the exhibition at Wolverhampton Art Gallery — a Black Country factory crowned by a computer chip. The work draws a direct line from the region's industrial furnaces to today's silicon foundries. Flop H-100 E: Neural Surge has entered the Wolverhampton Art Gallery collection.
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 14 June – 21 September 2025. Photopolymer etchings, sculpture, and artist film.
Each intaglio monoprint was made at Thameside Print Studio. The plate carries what the model generated; the press and the ink make it physical. Every pull is different. No two prints are the same.
Endz of the World — Coded Furnaces
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, June–September 2025. Photopolymer etchings, sculpture, and artist film. Solo exhibition as part of the UAL 20/20 programme.
Chelsea Space, Chelsea College of Arts, London
Artist film screenings, summer 2025.
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
20/20 Group Exhibition, 2025.
London College of Fashion, Stratford
20/20 Group Exhibition, 2025.
