Still as a Statue (2025)

Can the steady erosion of individual significance acknowledge our social evolution?

‘Still as a Statue’ is an interrogation of statues. It is the continuation of a conversation over both the installation and removal of them, and how it is that we can re-imagine statues for better representation, transparency and decolonisation. It utilises participation and provocation to encourage opinions and thoughts to be shared. Can the steady erosion of individual significance acknowledge our social evolution? Who is worthy of preservation? How can we move forward and decolonise when our upward gazes are met with the stone-cold colonisers themselves? If memorials are used to remind us of what should never happen again, why is the same not said to statues?

You will find, it is made up of three parts: a participatory workshop, provocative zines and an interactive website for wider reach.

It is built to situate itself in British public squares. Each element of ‘Still as a Statue’ is impermanent, it is made to weather, change and oppose the stagnant bronze casting of most statues. Much like ‘Still as a Statue’, I aim to foster involvement, allowing people to add or take away - disabling my use of static outcomes.