Housing

Over a period of five years I created a body of work in response to the housing crisis in London. The paintings were initially inspired by adverts in estate agents windows, grim looking bedsits and rooms advertised for rent for extortionate amounts. Some of the paintings were exhibited in a shop window in Kentish Town in a mock estate agent display for The Spirit House exhibition.

The body of work developed to explore many aspects of the housing crisis - the lack of social housing and the dismantling of council owned housing estates, housing benefit claimants being banned from renting privately, rogue landlords overcharging for sub-standard housing, multi-occupancy in small properties and bedrooms in cupboards. Separate entrances or ‘Poor Doors’ for tenants renting or purchasing ‘affordable homes’ in new housing developments, foreign investment and properties left unoccupied to become derelict in the most expensive postcodes.

'Stunning Two Bedroom Apartment' oil on bedsheet stretched over wood. 120 x 100cms 2015

Stunning two bedroom apartment

Oil on bedsheet stretched over wood

120 x 100cms

'Studio Flat in Kings Cross' oil on board. 65 x 40cms 2016

Studio Flat in Kings Cross

Oil on board

65 x 40cms

Estate Agent Paintings on display at Spirit house exhibition, London NW5. oil on paper 2017

Estate Agent Paintings on display at Spirit house exhibition, London NW5.

Oil on paper

Multiple A2 sheets

'No DSS' oil on canvas, 120 x 100cms 2013

No DSS

Oil on canvas

120 x 100cms