2003

DVD 3 minutes

This is a video made in collaboration with my daughter. Its starting point was a reproduction of the painting Cherry Ripe by Millais. In the painting and in the video a young girl sits on a fallen oak tree in the middle of a dark forest. This work alludes to myths of the life giving properties of the ancient oak tree and the darker myths about stranger danger and the perils of bringing up a child in the beauty and fashion saturated competitive society that Britain is at the moment. My daughter is telling secrets both to the tree and to the camera.

Single Lamda print AO size with DVD in edition of 5

Exhibitions

• Cherry Ripe and other Complications, MOP Sydney Australia 2003