Intervention

As part of the first Coast Festival (23rd-26th May2008 ). One of three commissioned temporary public art works. It consisted of 5 uprights in polished steel. These created a complex visual environment of reflections, shadows and reflected light beams. Constantly changing in accordance with the light and the viewers position.

A simple intervention text work on a public phone box. The use of standard signage type lettering neatly applied gives this intervention a quasi official aura that may account for its longevity.

Hanging acrylic panels engraved with Latin botanical names the English translations of which are used as women's names.

An example of that much favoured genre of vandalistic intervention that involves removing or adding to official signage text to say something more amusing or profound, in this case with a certain wit.

A square concrete block of the kind that once covered much of the coasts of Britain and Europe, with carved graffiti. Blocks of concrete such as this still stretch all the way from Aberdeen to the mouth of the River Ythan at Newburgh. There are also extant examples on more northerly Aberdeenshire beaches that could have been used for landing. Built in 1940 they were designed to prevent tanks landing during the feared Nazi invasion. Some have simple graffiti on them but this one was richly decorated by Louis Lawson. There is a caricature of Churchill who is watching Hitler looking upwards at a bomb falling from the sky. At the bottom there is the chilling message "Hitler's Graveyard".