Stolen White Goods
Year: 1999
An active response to Ceal Floyer's Monochrome (A work consisting of a supermarket receipt detailing the purchase of 36 white items), Stolen white goods is exactly the same selection of 36 white items – including lard, paper plates, milk and tissues – that Ceal bought and which I stole over the course of a number of visits to various supermarkets in Bristol.
Utilising a certain entrepreneurial spirit having acquired all the items at no cost, I then put them up for sale as artworks in a gallery at an appropriately disproportionate markup and so offered a simple and valuable lesson in how to make us all much better capitalists.
An editioned print and book was published with Ikon gallery in Birmingham. The book can be found in their shop, go steal it or buy it using the link here