Penny Dreadful:

“Penny Dreadful is a pejorative term used to refer to cheap popular serial literature produced during the nineteenth century in the United Kingdom. The term is roughly interchangeable with penny horrible, penny awful, and penny blood”.

The current work draws together from the sketchbook new works on paper: a range of both known and familiar objects arranged in a comic strip like format. The images are brought together into a grid, the objects connecting with one another forming potential narratives. The medium of ink, coffee and highlighters gives a saccharine prefabricated kit, or formulaic quality, akin to the nature of mass produced literature like the Penny Dreadful.

This work will be exhibited as part of the South East Open Studios: 15th June – 18th June & 22nd June – 25th June 2017:  at the Hazelnut Press, 1 Ridley Road, Rochester, ME1 1UL.