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"Epic Fury" is on paper selected to suggest a desert environment, and the title is that of Donald Trump's campaign to bomb Iran "back to the stone age". Iranian wildlife gathers around Trump's baseball cap. Their reactions are negative. In the Food Chains drawing, we follow the chains to see how plants (which could feed humans) are used in farmed-fish food . The fish are fed antibiotics and substances to colour their flesh shades of pink, rather than the grey the fish have when contained in farming enclosures. Intensive fish farming does produce food protein but damages the environment and involves wasteful use of nutritional plants and medicines. Fish also develop abnormalities, and are plagued by lice. I have been using non-human imagery in recent drawings to draw attention to exploitation of creatures for profit, and also to allude to the ways in which war damages both humans and nature.

My work is research-based, aiming to bring the past into a productive confrontation with the present, exploring what a political art practice might entail. Works in the last few years include Cuts Piece, featuring Ms. Atropos, who cuts the thread of life (about Government Cuts); historical witch trials and their relationship to contemporary scapegoating of migrants; the late Medieval Dance of Death/Dance Macabre theme and its transposition to the present; a Scottish Sibyl who answers questions with obfuscating statements taken from comments by government and business spokespeople; drawings in the manner of 17th century emblems which relate to ongoing war, pestilence, famine and death, and works on animal/human inter-actions .

Recently I have been making work about Palestine and the human and environmental destruction there, ocean pollution and threats to marine life, and I am involved in a project called Seed _2065. For this I have done three large drawings - Seeds of destruction, Seeds of hope and Seeds of future in the past. These make reference to past and present wars and how seeds can be used as a symbol of rebirth but also exploited by big agribusinesses. I get lots of ideas for my work by reading current news reports and looking at the historical roots of present day conflicts and climate change. As well as developing my art practice I regularly attend protests and demonstrations.

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