Aim: make a portrait of a market using objects bought there that cost a total in pounds of the market’s postcode.

Market Portraits is a slow ongoing project started in 2009, which documents neighbourhood markets through headdresses/accessories made from items bought in the market. The items must cost the numerical value of the market’s postcode (e.g. in a market in SA1 I can only buy something that costs £1; or in E8 it would be £8). 

The project explores the globalised homogenies and regional idiosyncrasies of material cultures; and how the objects sold at markets describe something of the place, its population and the movement of goods. It includes sculpture, performance, fashion, social exchange and photography.