Dino Rose TfL: Pyro Park and the Pigeons of the Scented Fountain (Crystal Palace Re-map) 2025
Installation | Found objects, electrical tape, plasticine, tape, glue, pen drawings | Kabinett Gallery, London
Rose, the green combo dinosaur, greets passersby at the entrance to the Crystal Palace - a fusion of the 1851 Great Exhibition and the contemporary Crystal Palace Park. Inside, wall works and miniature structures made from found objects fill the space around a central, perfumed fountain positioned on an old yoga mat across a brown crate. These include pigeon drawings, branches, toothpicks, balloons, bottle tops, glass fragments, Pokémon cards, shoes, shrink-wrapped bottles, football segments, toy buses, bubble wrap flowers, marbles and a cedar rose - while cardboard and metal simulate the 1936 fire burning through the ceiling.
Loose boundary edges and topographical lines, drawn with brightly coloured electrical tape onto the sides of the bus kiosk, form a map of the five London boroughs that Crystal Palace straddles. Shapes, moving like a live forecast, are overlaid with waste stuck in plasticine and charity shop finds—communal remnants of lived experience.
Charlie reimagines the map not as a fixed, authoritative delineation of space, but as a fluid, playful form that resists colonial and commercial structures. As the installation evolved, new elements were added in response to historical research, experience of place and intuitive making.
Featuring the Kabinett community library and work by Mark McGowan, Jan Arden & others.
Installation | Found objects, electrical tape, plasticine, tape, glue, pen drawings | Kabinett Gallery, London
Rose, the green combo dinosaur, greets passersby at the entrance to the Crystal Palace - a fusion of the 1851 Great Exhibition and the contemporary Crystal Palace Park. Inside, wall works and miniature structures made from found objects fill the space around a central, perfumed fountain positioned on an old yoga mat across a brown crate. These include pigeon drawings, branches, toothpicks, balloons, bottle tops, glass fragments, Pokémon cards, shoes, shrink-wrapped bottles, football segments, toy buses, bubble wrap flowers, marbles and a cedar rose - while cardboard and metal simulate the 1936 fire burning through the ceiling.
Loose boundary edges and topographical lines, drawn with brightly coloured electrical tape onto the sides of the bus kiosk, form a map of the five London boroughs that Crystal Palace straddles. Shapes, moving like a live forecast, are overlaid with waste stuck in plasticine and charity shop finds—communal remnants of lived experience.
Charlie reimagines the map not as a fixed, authoritative delineation of space, but as a fluid, playful form that resists colonial and commercial structures. As the installation evolved, new elements were added in response to historical research, experience of place and intuitive making.
Featuring the Kabinett community library and work by Mark McGowan, Jan Arden & others.
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