Miniature pushchairs, buggies, prams

The miniature vehicles take habitat in the gallery space, a site-specific environment or on plinths. This family of miniature wheelchairs, pushchairs, prams, and double buggies characterise the uncomfortable reality that is the brevity of life; before long, the vehicle that drives one from birth to youth is replaced by the vehicle that drives the unfortunately disabled to their inevitable death. They address the vulnerable nature of disability and death by playing victims to accidents imitated from the human world. Immobilised by their injuries, the vehicles highlight the fragility of human life, where the threat of sudden and accidental injury (and death) constantly surrounds us.

To be drawn to these unique, animated vehicles is to enter a diminutive world where annihilation rubs all around; just like looking in the mirror.