In our 2011 show I exhibited two very different pieces of work:

DOLLS' HOUSE DRAMAS.

Elaborating on the last year's series of fantasy portraits of Little People, this year I put people in dolls' houses.......creating vignettes using that incredibly versatile tool, Photoshop. Shrinking friends and family and placing them into little fantasies has surprised me by reinforcing what we already know somewhere: that dolls' houses are not just cosy, but also rather sinister and claustrophobic. Trapped in them are the powerless parts of childhood as well as the wholesome.

These are enormously elaborate and labour-intensive pieces that with any luck ended up looking effortless.     

MEMORY WALL.

I recently ended up with my father's huge collection of black and white negatives, taken during the late 'forties and throughout the 'fifties. I've started to use these creatively. Most of the images I've never seen before. They stirred a whole range of feelings in me; and in our 2011 show I invited visitors to allow themselves to have their own memories stirred by the rather random, eclectic, well-shot or weirdly-composed and sometimes deteriorated images from a rapidly further-retreating past. An entire wall was plastered with the prints because I wanted to create something unmissable, maybe overwhelming. I provided glosses for the curious: some people wanted only to look, others liked the detail they gave. I was heartened and inspired by the responses the work received.

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