UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS (2020) is a project bringing together patient ambassadors for Blood Cancer UK and stem cell researchers working at the Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre. Through a series of stop-motion animation workshops held via Zoom, participants developed hand-cut animation sequences exploring their experiences of ‘the unknown’ in relation to living with blood cancer, the challenges of research and the global uncertainties of Covid-19. Animation materials included paper, velvet and issues of National Geographic published in 1960, the year Blood Cancer UK officially became a charity.
Commissioned by the Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute as part of its Public Engagement programme, project outcomes include an animated film featuring participants’ stop-motion sequences (Futuramic Unknown, 2020) and an installation for the Jeffery Cheah Biomedical Center at Cambridge Biomedical Campus (The Night the Mountains Moved, 2020).
Stay Terrific (4.2m x 5.9m), installation shot, Kettle’s Yard, 2019
Stay Terrific
Print installation
Dimensions variable
2018-2019
Stay Terrific is a series of posters made between 2018 and 2019, in the thick of Donald Trump's presidency. Considering the intergenerational effects of trauma against the present-day socio-political climate, the works combine quotes from American motivational speaker Ed Foreman's 'Successful Life Course' with photographs of the artist's father during his time in Vietnam.
Stay Terrific: Like A King
Pigment print on gloss rag
82cm x 58cm
2019