Broken Arm

Pencil on paper
Dimensions: 23x18cm

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.

I felt that the furniture in the house still contained the spirit of the previous owner, 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.