My graduate show piece at the Royal College of Art was an installation titled ‘Playing with the Shark, the Bull and the Monkey’. It consisted of a timed sound installation that played recorded noise from the poker hall, 3 paintings from my Action Black series and painted floorboards.
Once you come to the realisation that you are an artist, and following this burning desire you fully commit your life to this life of the deranged, everything you do is a gamble.
I started playing poker at the Grosvenor, Europe’s largest poker room - a short cycle from the RCA Kensington site and my university studio between 2017 and 2019. I played poker to raise £9500 - the equivalent of a years tuition, documenting the process via videos streamed to Instagram.
Mayfly was the name of a show at the Hockney Gallery in the Royal College of Art and also formed the name of the largest piece in the show. The work within the space changed multiple times during the day with Samboleap Tol and Andrew Hart adding art works and a sound based performance to this rendition of the work.
