About Memento Collective A collective of five working artists who meet regularly to share and discuss the progress of their work. Through doing so they have identified a number of common themes; memory, loss, re-emergence and return. These are expressed by each artist through a variety of practices, concepts and techniques, including drawing, painting and printmaking; sculpture; photography and film; documentation, installation and live art.
Update : Death Dreams & Desire
Photo Montage of Images by MementoCollective Members The countdown to our collective exhibition in September is ticking by, ever faster.... I have been working on an image to give a flavour of the exhibition but this doesn't represent by any means the diversity of the work we will be showing! Stuart has shared a few …
Death Dreams and Desire – update
The Memento Collective exhibition looms ever closer and I have been imagining new work for my part. The installation is growing and new ideas emerge as I dig deep into my memories of the 1950's and my brief relationship with my maternal Grandmother- Ruby Daisy. Ruby was, to say the least, eccentric. From memory she …
Informing my practice…..
It's been a while - the past few months have been a blur - emotionally, physically, mentally. All the same really, all linked, all part of the same being. The fog or blur is beginning to clear- focus, let's hope it's not just a fleeting moment of clarity. I have been reading both fictional and …
Childhood Memories…or are they?
The idea that our memories of childhood or even recent events are as they seem or are they post memory -an interpretation based on our own experience of events mixed in with other influences such as recounted memories from others, photographs or similar incidents...... I am working on a project with the group 'memento collective' …

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