Two of my windsocks have been commissioned by Timespan for the Mediterranea Young Artists Biennale 2025, installed in Nova Gorica & Helmsdale. Made from found hi-visibility clothing (Glasgow was the first place in the UK to use hi-vis workwear: railway maintenance workers, 1964) & other urban flotsam, the windsocks are installed outdoors, one on the biennale site, the other in north Scotland.
The aesthetic quality of these fabrics embodied by the wind are symbolic of change & talk to a collective sense of urgency. Flags are objects of nationalism & colonisation; the tubular flag is a reaction against that notion; an attempt to undermine authority & territorialism by taking what is found on the street & raising it high, changing our relationship with waste, & with the flag as a symbol of power. Instead audiences notice the changing weather, the wind briefly captured in conical representation of passing time & what is now.
Mediterranea 20 – Young Artists Biennale opens from 30 May until 30 June & my artwork sits on the Slovenia-Italy border.
Timespan have the artwork up longer-term: June 2025 onwards.