Every time I enter my studio space, through the main door and past the tiny kitchen area, I am confronted by the one uninterrupted wallspace I have at my disposal – the one I use mainly for pinning up ideas in progress, pending something happening to further them down the road to fruition. When I sit at my desk I sit with this wall behind me. I don’t see it again till I rise from my chair. Looking at this wall, day in day out, I often wonder what’s going on in other folks’ studios, how their walls look. Could I turn what’s behind me around and make it the showpiece it aspires to be?

Wall Papers is a project space based on the back wall of my studio, activating my studio wall with what’s going on on someone else’s studio wall. I’ve asked a number of artist colleagues to contribute to this ongoing project, with the instruction they send me an image taken of an area within their studio 2.9m high by 2.4m wide – the size of my wall. I then reproduce the rastered image full size via my A4 black and white laser printer and paste it up on my studio wall. The image will remain in place for a month, to be followed by another artist’s contribution.