Throw Away - local regeneration
The artist proposes to collect refuse from streets in a 200 yard radius from the shop site, and to reuse this to make art pieces/ingenious objects which draw the looker’s gaze. The objects are ‘desirable’ in that they are hand made by an artist, but on closer inspection the viewer finds that they are a load of old rubbish, quite literally. These will be attached to a conveyor belt and a turntable set up to continually rotate in the shop window.

The piece keys into several well known visual prompts: one is reminded of the ‘generation game’: one of the first of many possession- grabbing television entertainments. There is also the obvious reference to a throw away society, where the pursuit of ever better objects to satisfy our cravings reaches the level of religious addiction. And, in the period post G8, we are also reminded that a large portion of the world’s population actually lives on and from rubbish; our extraneous possessions are their livelihood. The secondary title also keys into the countrywide attempts at urban renewal where it is believed, whether correctly or not, that dressing up city centres and sink estates will ultimately lead to a better life for local inhabitants