A year or so after leaving art school and then having to leave my home in the forest I moved into a council estate in nearby Thetford.

As a young artist at the beginning of my career, and with the whole vast world to try to make sense of, I would collate drawings, photographs, drawings on photographs, texts, cuttings etc on A5 index cards. Whatever I was making, an element of it would have a life on an A5 card.

This was, of course, long before the digital revolution. Some work would grow beyond the confines of A5 and I also made individual A4 box files - all of which were, in themselves, 'the work'.

'Index Cards' - Prisoners of Conscience

Index Card / photograph (5" x 8" / 127 x 203 mm) illustrating an installation in Thetford, Norfolk 1978. For several years in the mid 1970's The Times newspaper published an article, every week, about a different individual who was being held, somewhere in the world, as a prisoner of conscience. For nearly three years (March 1976 - November 1978) I made a collection of all these articles . . .as well as all the copies of The Times printed in that period. 

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