Stalactite

24 March 2011 – 5 May 2011
Frith Street Gallery, London

Inside the entrance to Frith Street Gallery an accretion of fingers and hands hung from the concrete ceiling: Earth a cast-bronze stalactite ending with a single finger pointing towards the floor. A photographic diptych on the wall, Searchlight showed a beam of light scanning the surface of the dark sea searching for a lost body. The gallery was filled with the sound of a young boy-soprano singing. In the video he stands below a spectral stalactite in a cave in Ireland. (Stalactite. See Gravity/Crawford Gallery ) 

Pearl Bones - The bones of a human hand with one finger-tip covered with black pearl nacre lay in delicate display cabinets. Pearl Bones is the result of an experiment where the finger-tip bones of a human hand were placed in black-lipped oysters in a lagoon in Rangiroa, Tahiti. When retrieved it was found that the oyster had only covered one finger-tip bone, rejecting the other four. (Pearl Bones was earlier shown as a video work at the Bloomberg Space London in 2009 documenting  the process of placing the bones in the oysters out on a lagoon in Rangiroa Tahiti.)