Fruit and Vegetable Boxes
Present
Description
 
Fields
  • Fruit and Vegetable Boxes, 2009 onwards


    Wooden boxes, discarded after markets in Europe, provide a material which lends itself to manipulation by cutting and dying and converting from their one-off use to transport and display fruits and vegetables. The soft wood absorbs inks which complement and enhance the printed commercial designs and the grain of the wood. I utilise the evidence left by past usage and other kinds of manipulation and handling to bring this material into another realm, another country (which no longer uses wooden boxes but cardboard and polystyrene) and another public.

  • Red Metamorphosis (2102) Timber, ink and wax. 30x30cms
  • La Pomme (2012) Timber, ink and wax. 90x60cms
  • Ocean View  (2012) Timber, ink and wax. 30x30cms
  • The European Market  (2011) Timber, ink, wax. 90x150cms
  • Strawberry Fields  (2011) Timber, ink, wax. 42x42cms
  • Seven Butterflies at the Market  (2011) Timber, ink, wax. 92x108cms
  • Coming in to land (2012) Timber, ink, wax. 90x90cms
  • Fruits and vegetable boxes (or 'cageots' in French) piled up waiting to be thrown away, or recycled and turned into art work! Photo taken at Mercat de L'abaceria Central, Barcelona, Spain.
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    Fruit and vegetable boxes at the market. You'll notice that most of these are actually made of cardboard, and they look just like the wooden ones. Wooden boxes are becoming less common, most are now made of cardboard. Photo taken at Mercat El Ninot, Barcelona, Spain.