The Pale Soft Palaces of Death

Interim Show

City & Guilds of London Art School18–26 March 20262026

An exploration of death, hauntology, longing and freedom - an embodied love letter. Composed of interrelated yet oblique elements, the work assembles expressive material constellations through which intimate and abject experiences are distilled to generate forms of embodied knowledge.

A physical installation as part of the interim show at City & Guilds of London Art School. The work assembles a constellation of objects - a boar costume in pale fur, a hand-blown glass jug, a handmade wooden table, a screenprint washed in spectral red, and an open text - configured in a corner of the studio, inviting viewers to crouch, read, and be held by the work.

Wide view of the installation - red screenprint and boar costume on wall, wooden table with glass jug and open text on paint-splattered floor
Close-up of wall pieces - the red-washed forest screenprint beside the pale fur boar costume
Close-up of the floor piece - the open essay on reclaimed wooden boards with amber glass jug
Visitors engaging with the installation, crouching to read the text

Works in this installation

A figure lying in a winter forest wearing a white boar mask and pale garments, the entire scene washed in a spectral pink-red — a phantom reclining among bare trees and fallen leaves

Untitled (Self-portrait as Wild Boar)

A sewn boar costume in pale fur and leather, mounted on a white gallery wall

Untitled (boar head)

A hand-blown amber glass jug of milk and an open paper text resting on a pitch pine table, on a paint-splattered studio floor

Untitled

Untitled

A graphic composition: a muted coastal estuary of olive-green banks and grey sky, paired with a block of poetic text — landscape and language dissolving into one another

Graphic Landscape

Two identical screen prints of Thoth depicted as a baboon — seated, hands on knees, wings folded at the shoulders — hung side by side with bulldog clips on a white wall

Double Thoth

The Pale Soft Palaces of Death

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