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Violence feeds class, class feeds violence
2025
Found object, handwoven tweed, British wool, lead, slate, steel 
117 x 20 x 20 cm

Here a found object is modified to illustrate the concealed colonial savagery that helped build the economic standing of modern Britian. ​Keenly referencing the Mau Mau trial of 2013, during which the discovery of a hidden colonial archive forced the British government to recognise and compensate for the torture, rape, forced labour and wrongful detention of Kenyan nationals during British colonial rule.

Considering the deception and fallacy of hierarchical structure and class. 

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Foreign Office archives at Hanslope Park. Photograph: David Sillitoe
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