Bone-Aid

Digital print on card and screen-print on sticking plasters

Dimensions: 10 x 8.5 x 4 cm

In 2006 I was fortunate enough to be funded by the Friends of the Royal Scottish Academy to undertake a 3 month artist residency in Hospitalfield House, Arbroath.

Hospitalfield House is a mansion house, still predominantly furnished by the last owner/occupant Patrick Allan-Fraser.

Whilst there I felt that the treasured furniture and crockery contained the spirit of the previous owners; they had a presence and kept me company when I was alone, and so, remembering the house’s earlier history as a hospital, I mended the damaged objects using medical means, caring for them as one would a human body.

‘What you really collect is always yourself‘ Jean Baudrillard

This piece was awarded the RSA Ottillie Helen Wallace Prize in the Royal Scottish Academy’s Annual Exhibition in 2007.

Main photo by Ivon Bartholomew