I’ve had Clive the mannequin since collage in 2013. As the lady I bought him from had named him I’ve always found it hard to part with him so he’s followed me to 3 homes and 2 studios. He’s appeared in my photography sporadically throughout, featuring heavily on a now deleted instagram account I had from around 2016 to 2020, Clive’s most prolific era.

He can now be found at The Drill Hall but he’s had some adventures. I’ve also always loved images of mannequins and phrenology heads taken out of context or found in unusual places, perhaps a tip of the cap to some of the work of the surrealists but also I’ve always loved the shopfront shots and street scenes of Paris by Eugene Atget, from around the 1920s.