For the past eighteen months I've spent an unreasonable amount of time sitting beside swimming pools.
Not necessarily swimming. Mostly watching.
When I began Pool Diaries, I thought I was making a series of pool pictures. I needed text to weave into the artworks, so I started writing diary entries. Somewhere along the way, the diaries took over.
Instead of recording the obvious moments, the perfect splash or the beautiful sunset, I found myself noticing everything else. A dragonfly hovering above the water. An inflatable ring gently tapping against the pool edge. The peculiar way conversations drift across water. The tiny rituals that repeat themselves so often they almost become invisible.
Those observations became the exhibition.
ICEBERGS, 2026 - Diary entries
Each artwork now contains an entire time-stamped diary, printed across hundreds of individual colour chips. Together they record a full day beside the pool, revealing that what appears insignificant in isolation often becomes surprisingly meaningful through accumulation.
After eighteen months in the studio, it has been immensely satisfying to finally see the work installed at RHODES.
The exhibition is now open and runs until 1st August. If you find yourself in London, I'd love you to come and spend some time with it.
RHODES
65 Great Portland Street
London W1W 7LW
