“boarded up”
 
photo of a boarded up window with posters and graffiti on it
close up photo of the graffiti on the wood, reads GLF
photo of two posters on the wood, both read ‘halloween dance; the top poster has the top right corner torn off and the bottom poster has a big chunk ripped off the right side.
 

This work involved seeking out difficult to get permission to board up Chelsea’s Grade II listed studio windows. Many of the passers-by asked what had happened to the window and did not recognise this as art. This work was a discreet but rebellious act of reclamation. By boarding up the windows I was physically and quite noisily taking up space, in a sense “squatting”, in a building and institution I don’t always feel comfortable or safe in.

 
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