Dedication gallery - John Miller Gallery, Newcastle 2008

The work in this exhibition has developed from images collected in Palermo and Naples in April and May 2008 and Greece in 2007.

The journals contain drawings from various sites, archaeological museums, churches and musings in hotel rooms.

The paintings reflect on various forms of dedication - religious, artistic, sporting, intellectual and cultural. This dedication to art, religious devotion, sport, gangs and cultural history is manifest in graffitti, art, museology and ritual forms.

Panchina - Panchina means bench, in this case for the bench players in the soccer team. The painting represents some grafitt i on a marble bench outside Palermo cathedral. It is the team plan for Inter Milan (the top serie “a” team) and was drawn in texta on the bench which runs around the courtyard outside the cathedral.

Wall -Based on a wall in Palermo begind San Domenico in the Vucciria district Altar - A fragment of an altar piece in white and coloured marble, under renovation.

Chromebooth - Chroma means colour in Greek and ‘chrome yellow” is the lead yellow used in this painting. The image is from the phone booths in Athens that are bright yellow, blue, and covered in bright coloured pen grafitti.

Knightvision - The puppet show in Palermo feature mostly crusader knights in battle. The workshops that make them are stacked with heads, arms, torsos, all dismembered in battle.

Padre Pio - Padre Pio is the favoured recent saint of southern Italy. He is everywhere from shops to tattoos. This image is based on a shop window selling various votive plaques and statues.

Dedication - Based on a dedicatory inscription from Delphi in Greece where the Delphic oracle resided.

Foundation- A smaller image of a wall in Palermo.

Head of Clay- Based on Greek votive heads in Palermo archaeological museum. Head of God- Based on a sculpture in Naples archaeological museum..

Votif Heads - All the above paintings are based on votive heads in Naples archaeological musuem.

Palazzo 1,2,3 - The clocks in the above paintings were in the Palazzo Reale in Naples.