The Light of Bees and Other Civic Memory Machines After the Sun is Gone (2026) Photo James Merrell
Inspired by lost civilisations such as Atlantis and Rudolf Steiner’s lectures on the beehive as a social microcosm, The Light of Bees imagines architecture as a civic memory machine, carrying material, light, geometry and resonance towards an unknown future. The installation is constructed from hand-cast, single-fired Parian ‘light bricks’. Their bone-like tonality and curved geometry hold an inner amber luminosity, creating a shifting vocabulary of light and shadow. I describe this language as curve poetics, where curvature, repetition, rhythm and light become forms of communication.
Curve poetics
Curve poetics
Curve Poetics is a term I use to expand my ongoing thinking about suffering and freedom, this time through the lens of 'what holds form'. I'm interested in the idea that form might emerge from a curve continuum within dark matter. That the curvature of light and resonance is the wax and waning breath of the universe and its children.
What holds, what falls apart when the 'centre will not hold'? (W.B. Yeats)
Is aesthetics in all its forms art a timeless exploration of these question?
Are artists soothsayers of unseen forces shaping materiality?
Bone Dynasties Series (2026)
Downstream Constellation (2026) Installation (Sidney Nolan Prize Exhibition) Photo James Merrell
Venus Equus Series (2026)
Dome of Solace (2025) Photo James Merrell
Stardusters, Middled Work, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (online) 2025
Decay and Resurrection, London (2023) Photo James Merrell
Rage of Age Series (2023)
Venus Resurrection,Out of Reach: The Enigma of Consciousness, Art in the Docks Gallery, London (2024)
Predictive Text, Third Millennium Project 01.01.3000, Into the Flux, International Body of Art, Peckham Garage, London (2024)
Kinetic Entropy, Performance Making (Film), Women Cinemakers Award, USA (2025) Filming by James Merrell
M25 Lament for Gaia, Filmed Performance, HSBC Gallery, Canary Wharf, London (2023) Filmed by James Merrell
Death the Horizontal, Black Box Video Installation, Royal College of Art Graduate Exhibition & Genesis Cinema, London (2024)
Divining Direction (sculpture installation), RCA/UPRUM collaboration, Czech Centre, London (2023)
Thought Drawings (Wall Coverings) 2025
