Public Erasures are interactive artworks where I display multiple detailed drawings of an endangered species and invite the public to erase them.

PUBLIC ERASURES 2024

Velarde Gallery, Kingsbridge - Brown Hare Lepus europaeus

Bath Assembly Rooms - Hedgehog Erinaceus europaeus

Kensington Gardens, London - Bee Apis mellifera among other wild Bees

Bath Assembly Rooms - Grey Long Eared Bat Plecotus austricus

Exeter Climate Hub - Blue Ground Beetle Carabus intricatus

East Allington, Devon - Emperor Penguin Aptenodytes forsteri

Recent event:

‘PUBLIC ERASURE - AFTER DURER’S HARE Then and Now’ SATURDAY 11TH NOVEMBER 2023 at The VELARDE Gallery, 86 Fore Street, Kingsbridge, Devon

Opened by Jonathan Dimbleby, Writer and Broadcaster

Short BBC film by Jonathan Morris:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-devon-67418844

In 1502 Albrecht DURER made this sketch of a Hare. It was a nature study of a young hare whose population was plentiful at the time. Today the Hare is under serious threat. Numbers are thought to have declined 80% since the late 19th Century.

Public Erasures are interactive works where I invite the public to erase my drawings of endangered species as well as Public Erasures - White Wash and Green Wash where the public erases a painted image with a particular strike through or obliterating mark. The interactive element combined with the subject matter offers both a visceral and intellectual experience.

Many of these drawings and paintings have in mind the ‘disappearing marks’ of a species that are in danger of being lost from our visual vocabulary.

Our actions or inactions to preserve the life of millions of species now will determine the fate of biodiversity and ultimately of life itself on Earth