‘Public Glass’
2024 / 2025
collages
reclaimed acrylic glass, plastic, paper, signage, adhesives, rubber edging


at World Fruit & Vegetable; Kingsland Groceries; nGbK, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst ; Josilda da Conceição and Lea Bridge Express




These collages compile reclaimed display materials, gathered from cornershops and local food venues around London's Ridley Road Market. The layers of used acrylic, handwritten signage, print outs and packaging form a ply of ‘public glass’, drawing tender and abstract portraits of the socially significant spaces they stem from.

The windows of these small corner shops are usually make-shift displays of handwritten notes, sun-bleached print outs, colourful advertisements, public transport information and local announcements. Subsequently they are a form of self-publishing platform and become a reflection of the particular social spaces these stores occupy in the urban landscape. These composite laminate-artworks from this series are a reverence and encouragement to writing, scratching or sticking information to the public glass panels of our cities to regain autonomy and ownership of those interfaces of the build environment, rather than delegating the power to announce to larger commercial entities.