Hare Bracelet
Silver wire, solder, nepalese tissue paper, acrylic paint, acrylic medium, metallic gouache, h 6cm

Mermaid Bracelet
Silver wire, solder, nepalese tissue paper, acrylic paint, acrylic medium, metallic gouache, h 6cm

Objects from storytelling performance: Mermaid marionette and artist’s book about the folklore of the Moon.

Moon artist’s book: plaster of paris, chicken wire, galvanised wire, scrim, acrylic medium, acrylic paint, silver film, silver wire, solder, moonstone, nylon thread, tissue paper, glue, dried flowers, found objects

Marionette: plaster of paris, chicken wire, scrim, nylon thread, wooden fruit crate, acrylic medium, acrylic paint

I currently have two durational projects in progress. 

The first is my own project, Sleep On Beloved, where I catalogue the floral tributes at Camberwell New Cemetery in Southwark, south London, which I’ve been doing since 2013. 

The second is 20 Sites n Years, which I took over from the late artist Tom Phillips RA in 2023. He began the project in 1973 photographing 20 places around Peckham and Camberwell on the same day, at the same time, every year. 

In 2013 I began photographing the floral tributes in Camberwell New Cemetery. Day after day, week after week as I walked my dog towards One Tree Hill I came across these tributes, hand-made to order by florists for the funerals of local people whose favourite hobbies, sports teams, cigarette brands, TV programmes, tipples, music and all manner of familiar and universal human interests were celebrated in floral folk-art. Tender, hilarious, rude, and full of pathos, I hope they took their special things into the afterlife with them. 

I have hundreds of these photos, this is a selection of my favourites.

I called the project Sleep On Beloved after the beautiful hymn, written by Sarah Doudney and Ira Sankey in 1871. I particularly love this version by Waterson:Carthy.

You can see the whole project in slideshows HERE
Jake Auerbach’s documentary film about the project is HERE
David Jennings’ walking MAP of the sites with simple directions
Contact me if you’d like to join the 20 Sites Newsletter

Some time in 1996 my friend, Lucy Drury (maker of colourful porcelain pots), asked me if I knew a way of sewing a patchwork quilt top from card. She worked for the artist Tom Phillips and he wanted to make a large scale textile piece, originally titled Women’s Work, from the phone box calling-cards that were all over London at the time. The internet put paid to these but they were everywhere, advertising all kinds of illicit delights from the sex industry. We made one quilt together, and then another, and another... I carried on working with him over a period of 25 years on all kinds of fascinating projects: his artist’s book A Humument, We Are The People (an exhibition of real photo postcards at the NPG), his illustrated books for the Folio Society, and each year we would walk the 9 miles or so around Peckham and Camberwell, photographing his project, 20 Sites n Years. 

20 locations in south London, photographed at the same time, on the same day, from the same position, every year since he began in 1973. Before he died in 2022 Tom asked me to continue as photographer.

Some sites have hardly changed: his home on Talfourd Road, and the bowling green in Ruskin Park, whereas others have altered almost beyond recognition, or even been demolished! The Marlborough pub where we once grimly drank a ginger ale (me) and glass of red wine (Tom) en route is gone, and the Odeon cinema was demolished in 1985, to celebrate British Film Year.

Tom started the project on 35mm film (Kodak Ektachrome), and we were late to adopt digital photography in 2016 as scarcity of slide processing services made it almost impossible to continue. This year, 2026, I used my Canon EOS 750D.