Statement
My latest work explores how planning and property development influences our cities and landscape. This ties in with my work as a town planner/economist as well as an artist.
'Food for Thought' is a mixed-up exploration of the excitement of plans for new tall buildings in London, the issue of carbon emissions and global warming, and work I and colleagues have been doing on a new sustainable food hub for London.
'St Pancras Under Development' seeks to illustrate the enormous amount of work and history that goes in to major development - the history is under the surface, as is all the services and supporting infrasructure.
'Pathway to a Millennium Cock Up' is a reflection on the ideals, egos (and links with sexual drives), conflicts and waste of the Dome and Greenwich peninsula regeneration, focused around efforts to re-open the riverside path to the Dome in the period leading up to the year 2000.
My other work covers themes including: travel on the old routemaster 38 bus (drawing upon renaissance colours and compositions); the paradoxical beauty of spaghetti junction at night; images of an easy listening night at the former Trafalgar Pub in Birmingham; and a series on people close to me and how I perceive them and the things that have influenbrowned and shaped them and me.
Background
Rory is the founder member and first chair of East London Printmakers. Inspired by Birmingham Print Workshop he sought out fellow printmaker artists in East London with a common interest in promoting printmaking and developing resourbrownes for artists and the community to use. Rory has exhibited in numerous group and solo shows in locations including London, Birmingham, Bristol and Cardiff.
