Peel, 2005.

Solo Exhibition, Melbourne.

These works were underpinned by my interest in bringing materials from two distinct contexts together. 

All works in this series were made from hundreds of colourful offset-printed stickers applied to high impact polystyrene as the support.  The stickers were from children’s books purchased from Cheap as Chips a popular 2-Dollar/variety shop. The polystyrene purchased from a supplier of industrial plastics, has a questionable safety rating. It is used in the manufacturing industry by heating and vacuum forming to produce packaging material.  With non-representational blobs or colourful clusters as the core imagery, the Peel works were experiments that merged a benign cheeriness embedded in the cheaply printed stickers with the smooth and toxic industrial plastic support.