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Heaven or Hell Appeal;

The Snowball Circus presents Evolution

Born: Dewsbury, Yorkshire. Studied at Batley College of Art and Goldsmiths College, London. Lives and works in Ilkley, West Yorkshire.

'Heaven or Hell Appeal' is based on those thermometer shaped boards seen outside churches showing the amount of money that has been raised so far in a save-the-church-roof appeal. In this sculpture a line connects heaven and hell and is divided into intervals by holes drilled into the wood. Aspirants or sinners are invited to select a position along the line by placing a peg in one of the holes -this will determine how close personally they feel to heaven or hell at that particular moment. This can be moved up or down on a second visit and will be an individual's response to whether they feel they have moved closer to heaven or hell during the two weeks of the exhibition. This is a very loose interpretation of the 'Natural Selection' theme -a kind of winners and losers arrangement -where the viewers are invited to 'select' their future.

'The Snowball Circus presents Evolution' is a precarious tower of snowball acrobats in a tableau that demonstrates a possible evolutionary tree.