The materials that interest me most are the ones people rarely notice twice.
Cardboard and estate agent boards are designed to be temporary — useful for a moment, then quickly discarded.
But look closer and they reveal something unexpected: intricate structures, bold colour, and surfaces that interact beautifully with light.
Working with these materials is an exploration of their hidden potential — and an invitation to see the ordinary differently.
Cardboard
Cardboard, cardboard, cardboard - what an amazing material.
Strong yet lightweight, structured yet subtle. Architectural with a subtle depth.
Cardboard is innately sustainable, biodegradable and recyclable. New cardboard is made from old — part of a closed loop where waste is collected, recycled, and used again to make the same thing it once was.
I’ve been creating with cardboard since 2006 and I’m still excited by it.
It is one of the most common materials in our lives. It arrives with the things we buy, protects what’s inside, and is quickly flattened, forgotten and thrown away.
But look closer and something more intriguing is revealed.
Cut through its surface and you discover its layered structure — a delicate strength created from simple waves of paper. The edges form intricate lines, and when light passes through the layers it softens and diffuses in unexpected ways. Edges become just as important as surfaces. Structure becomes visible rather than hidden. Light moves through these layers creating depth, shadow and subtle variation across the surface.
In the studio, cardboard becomes something entirely different.
Carefully cut, shaped and assembled by hand, it transforms from protective packaging into a material that gently holds and shapes light.
A material designed to be temporary becomes something worth keeping.
Estate agent boards
Strong yet lightweight, durable yet delicate. Plain yet colourful.
It is a material we pass every day. Fixed to posts, tied to railings. Quickly seen, understood, and just as quickly ignored.
Produced as temporary signage, these boards are removed, discarded and left behind once their job is complete.
I work with these discarded boards as a material in their own right — an exciting source of colour, typography, and graphic composition.
Cutting into them, the delicate structure beneath the surface reveals itself. The edges become just as interesting as the surface.
In the studio, waste estate agent boards become something entirely different.
Carefully cut, folded and reworked by hand, the rigidity of the plastic becomes sculptural form. Typography, colour and graphics are abstracted into playful patterns, held within a hidden interior that comes to life when lit — creating a glowing interplay between colour, light and shadow.
A material designed to be temporary turns into something lasting.
