Gate C

The work grew through the repeated application of a simple cell-building action of croucheting second-hand football shirts.
The form, and physical attributes of the completed netting are emergent properties of this system of cell creation. The relation of the one-cell-recipe to the characteristics of the completed net mirrors that of the football supporter to the irrational behaviour of the crowd.

Patches of bright colour corresponding to the individual flattened shirts are still visible in the netting, they bring to mind a map of warring territories that has been hoisted in to the air; a heavy, threatening web, of limply hanging tendrils and cancerous accumulations.

The title refers to the Hillsborough football disaster of 1989, when too many people were let into Gate C of the stadium and hundreds of people were crushed against the fencing.