Trying to Throw Water Balloons at Staff Members' Heads (Best of 36 Tries)

2009
Series of 36 Photographs

Kind Participants: Roger Palmer, Chris Taylor, Simon Lewandowski, Richard Bell, Claire Harbottle, Will Docherty, John Hornsby, Robert Smith, Peter Morton

Trying to Throw.. was my main piece for the Leeds University Fine Art Degree Show of 2009. By using staff members, the piece references its situation and becomes completely site-specific. Like much of my work, the title is an integral part of the piece; it is the attempt by the anonymous ‘thrower’ that forms the basis of the piece. The title also makes clear the piece’s relatively ocscure art historical reference - to Jodn Baldessari, namely Trying to Throw Four Balls in the Air to get a Square (Best of 36 Tries). Trying to Throw Water Balloons at Staff Members’ Heads (Best of 36 Tries) can currently be seen on the cover of the Leeds University’s School of Fine Art prospectus.