These layered, painterly images were born of a fascination with the bandstand that sits atop the initially inexplicable hillock of Arnold Circus (of Shoreditch High Street). I was struck both by the object in itself and the visual relationships it creates with its surroundings.

Experimentation with material gathered there resulted in the process of layering elevations of each face of the bandstand. The symmetrical form allows the structure of the bandstand to register as coherent against a melee of backgrounds. The ethereal nature of the fnal image creates a tangible sense of the passage of time, with contemporary fgures appearing as ghosts of their Victorian or Edwardian forebears. The bandstands are recast as unerring witnesses, absorbing and refecting the changes in their surroundings, whether as active centres of attention, or as dis-used and perhaps mis-used relics of the past.