The Demolition of Guy's Body Shop

In 2012 I situated my installation, ‘RISING UP - RUNNING OUT, An Exploration of Oil’, in an abandoned automotive workshop. Guy's Body Shop was a microcosm of a world based on a petroleum economy, now broken. The economic forces that drive the search for oil were also seeping and leaking, like rain into the building and it faced imminent demolition.

In 2013 as the heavy machinery moved in, I recorded the end of Guy's Body Shop, through video and material explorations that respond to the building, and my carbon fuelled journey.

 'The Demolition of Guy's Body Shop', Graphite and Oil.

...and a third image accepted by Saatchi Gallery, 'Core Samples'

I've just had these images, 'Crude Transgressions' and 'Fossils of the Oil Age', accepted by Saatchi Gallery, London, to show on the 2nd floor screen. They are both from my installation RISING UP - RUNNING OUT, An Exploration of Oil, at Guy's Body Shop.