Giant Mosquito

2017 Suspended sculpture, Hand coloured lithograph on foam board and perspex with fishing line and timber frame 300cm x 80cm

‘Ross and Morris at the River’ Zoonotic Wallpaper

2018 Digital print of hand coloured lithograph, size variable.

Ross and Morris at the River’ Zoonotic Wallpaper.
Inspired by William Morris’ ornate arsenic wallpapers.
This wallpaper explores Ross River Fever and their hosts.

Ode to Morris’ Zoonotic Wallpaper

2017, Digital print of hand colored lithograph.
Size variable

Inspired by William Morris’ ornate wallpapers from the nineteenth century. Paris Green and Scheele’s Green’ were colors created with the use of arsenic. The wallpapers were often used in terraced houses, many of which suffered from rising damp. The damp reacted with the arsenic in the wallpaper with tiny particles flaking off. These particles were inhaled, and from time to time a number of people died. People knew of the arsenic in the wallpaper, they knew that it killed rats, but some people ignored the association, believing that it was only harmful if tasted or licked. (Hawksley, 2016) Similar analogies can be made today with attitudes towards certain zoonotic hosts.