Drink me was installed in the Institut Français d’Ecosse, Edinburgh as part of the group exhibtion Houseworks in 1997. in 1998 it was exhibited at Pitshanger Manor, Ealing, London

Drink Me

Installed in the anteroom to the office of the French Consul in Edinburgh, a Georgian terraced house above the steep gorge of the Water of Leith at Dean Village, Drink Me is an oil painting in parts. A work comprising some fifteen individual panels disposed across the walls of the room in an evocation of the earliest forms of painted panorama. It is a forest, a darkly blurred world of shifting hues of green and blue. Designed specifically for the scale, orientation and fixed ephemera of the anteroom site, the work plays against a full height gilded mirror, expanding the locus of the panorama, distorting space and reinforcing the hallucinogenic recalibration of the room.