PUBLIC READING SYSTEMS

Reader Boards ONE STRONG IMAGE

Ongoing series

Using the visual language of roadside signage, cinema marquees and public advertising systems, Reader Boards transform familiar formats of fast public communication into expanded printed slogans, prompts and acts of protest.

Originally developed through direct responses to transphobia, healthcare gatekeeping and normative social language, the series has expanded into a wider investigation of how public text shapes behaviour, access and collective understanding. The works ask what happens when systems designed to communicate quickly and universally instead become sites of interruption, resistance and misreading.

Stop The Press / Newspaper Stand [1 newspaper image]
[1 install/public interaction image]

2018

Distributed through free newspapers, posters and take-away printed matter, Stop The Press explored misinformation, media circulation and public access to knowledge through the visual language of commuter newspapers and seaside ephemera.

The work repurposed sensationalist anti-trans newspaper rhetoric into protest material and public publishing, using print circulation as a method of collective action. Installed as both sculpture and free publication, the work questioned who controls public narratives and how information moves through everyday life.

Reading Room one image

2018

Developed as part of Rituals of Tourism, the Reading Room brought together LGBTQ+ history, queer theory, annotation and public access within a temporary shared reading space.

Books, notes, page markers and printed material became part of an expanded participatory environment where reading operated not as passive consumption but as a social and spatial activity shaped through presence, exchange and public encounter.

TOURIST INFORMATION CENTRE / RITUALS OF TOURISM
4–5 images. MAX

2018

Tourist Information Centre expanded the format of a public visitor centre into a distributed participatory artwork spanning guidebooks, maps, take-away publications, offsite installations and temporary public encounters around the town of Watchet.

Working through the visual language of tourism, navigation and public information systems, the project explored how places are read, marketed and emotionally constructed. Seaside rituals, postcards, deckchairs, newspaper stacks and souvenir culture became frameworks for examining gender transition, access, nostalgia, disappointment and public belonging.

Rather than treating print as a static object, the project used circulation, participation and movement through space as material. Visitors were encouraged to navigate the town, locate dispersed works and return repeatedly to changing maps, instructions and printed updates.