St George’s Recliner - 2025

Spray paint on couch

70 x 90 x 90 cm


“A central sculpture – a lounge chair emblazoned with St. George’s Cross – sits in the middle of the room, the fulcrum on which the exhibition spins. A kind of IKEA-fied Queen Anne Chair, the found object has been stripped of that which would give it any notable character, and by extension, historical context. Evidently mass-produced, its upholstery is a bland taupe, while its design lacks some of the trademark flourishes of the style. Yet, the “English-ness” of the object is brutally asserted: an unmistakable red cross is spray-painted directly across the chair’s front, turning it into a makeshift symbol of national identity. The contradiction between the dehistoricized object and its explicit national identity is central to the piece, eye-catching and seductive, yet it constitutes a recoupment of sorts. The English history of the object, the identity resultant from that history, becomes sutured back together; once more made whole.”

- Moses MacIntyre, FAD Magazine, review of No Plaice Like Home, COLAB Tower, London