Primum non nocere #2 Acrylic on cartridge paper screen prints – each A2

These works are based on the braille labels on pharmaceutical medication boxes. The braille patterns are faithfully reproduced in tablets, photo-stencilled and screenprinted.

Detail Primum non nocere #2

Systems allow us to make sense of the world. Systems bring order and control into our world. Braille is a system that the unsighted understand but not the sighted. What happens if you turn this tactile code into a purely visual pattern? It makes no sense to anyone. A nihilistic inversion.

Primum non nocere #3

Primum non nocere #3

Acrylic on cartridge paper screen prints – each A2

Medication boxes photo-stencilled and screen- printed with braille print overlay.

Medication is tightly controlled – it is boxed, labelled, and stored neatly in pharmacists drawers and pill dispensers. What would happen if you took all the boxes and threw them into a messy pile? Bring chaos into this world of stricture? Is that liberating or just irresponsible? Is it life affirming to relinquish control or just dangerous?

Details Primum non nocere #3

Primum non nocere #4

Primum non nocere #4 Video 37 secs duration

The video piece uses all the different medications that my father was taking – taking the tablets from all the little boxes in the pill tray- and having reassembled them into another regime of order it then destroys that order, turning it into chaos. Order vs chaos. Control vs letting go.

Too much too many

Too much too many Acrylic on cartridge paper screen print 168 x 240cm

This large installation uses scale to create the claustrophobic and crushing effect of medication regimes. The video captures a cathartic act of rebellion and release.

Despite what might appear a cynical view of medicine, I actually share a Modernist belief in progress. That we will ultimately find a way through these dilemmas to create a truly better human experience.