Provenance.

This project aims to draw attention to both the material and historical value of reclaimed timber which surrounds us in London and the wider UK. Victorian buildings were built using high quality, slow growth Scots pine - a material now replaced with inferior fast growing wide grained softwood.

Material like this holds stories collected over the centuries - stories that cannot be told outside of the material itself. In this way the material represents an undeniable frankness and truth. Provenance celebrates the imperfections, nail holes, rust stains and collected truths through the slicing of a 300 year-old reclaimed beam from the house in which I was born. The slices are laid out in the form of a storyboard drawing attention to the passing of time.