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Flawed space II (2025)

Sandstone flagstones, plywood, sand, concrete, pink glitter, wax metal and plastic streetlights, spray paint, chewing gum 

With thanks to Newcastle City Council, Sarah March, Wilf Sears and Freddy Williams

Image credits: Ellen Dixon

Flawed space II is glitter-grouted pavement, built from retired Northumberland Street flagstones, originally installed as part of the exhibition There is something where there should be nothing; there is nothing where there should be something. Foregrounding a larger installation, the pavement is backed by a ‘fourth wall’, on which the film Flawed space I: a case for contact – over networking – via Times Square Red, Times Square Blue is screened. The pavement is pre-emptively referred to throughout the conjoining film, which depicts the artists’ encounter with construction workers laying pavements in North Tyneside.

This installation broaches a modernist tradition, but disrupts its stale, male, minimalist connotations, inviting queer and crip sensibilities into weird and eerie reimaginations of public space. The reclaimed slabs, which formerly paved Newcastle’s main shopping street, host a curving, vertical strip of tactile paving slabs, used to indicate edges to blind and visually-impaired walkers, as well as casted wax sandbags, hunched like bodies. 

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