Abstract

I was chosen by the curators to produce a piece of work based on the ‘Cable Street Riot’,
which was being celebrated after 50 years. This was a mixed show including internationally
renowned artists, such as Jon Kaine and John Latham. Although the exhibition was entitled
‘Conflict’, I chose to work with the idea of ‘change’, using the river Thames as a metaphor of
change and also because of the history of the ‘docks’ Limehouse and Wapping and their
physical location to Cable Street. I placed images of local housing, layering these into this
water backdrop. This became a photographic image on clothe 50mm by 20mm. The work had
little in common with previous work, it felt like a departure…