leisure space - acrylic paint, charcoal, emulsion, enamel spray paint, thread & detritus on cotton twill - 245 x 330 cm

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Documenting the dismantling of municipal dreams and social progress, a relic of the post-war consensus - the demolition of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, accompanied by some suitably analogue dirge.



Watch in full here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgcgrkizJIg



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