About the work

‘Peoples’ (series 1) (2024) depicts twelve national leaders embroiled in ongoing wars and atrocities. Their small-scale rendered visages surround a hand-drawn QR code that can be scanned to watch an animation exploring all the drawings and their making (1 min 40 secs). The work shifts between shades of light and dark, between figuration and abstraction. Behind these faces lie millions of affected lives, many devastated or destroyed.

To watch the animation:

EITHER use your phone to scan the pencil drawn QR code from a computer screen or from someone else’s phone.

OR take a screenshot on your phone, crop just the QR code, then press the QR code to view the animation.

Date and country of birth

1971, GB

Career Highlights

Solo exhibitions include ‘Alongside’, QUAD, Derby (2020); ‘Un-Earth’, OCAT Xi’an, China (2018); ‘Unseen: The Lives of Looking’, Queen’s House, Royal Museums Greenwich (2015); ‘Cast’, Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg (2009) and The Photographers’ Gallery (2008). Projects in public space include ’Breathe:2022’ (2022/23), ‘Breathe’ (2012) produced by Invisible Dust, and ‘Linear’ (2010/12) for Art on the Underground. Group exhibitions include Wellcome Collection, Tate Modern, Venice Biennale and Salisbury Cathedral. Film festival nominations include ‘Best Feature Documentary’ at CPH DOX, Copenhagen (2015), and 24th Camerimage, Bydgoszcz, Poland. Public collections include MOMA New York, Tate Collection, National Portrait Gallery and Science Museum. He’s a professor at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL.