Degree Show 2025

Ibizan Epiphany is a five-part installation that follows on from my previous sculpture exploring the linear trajectory of language. This piece shifts focus to Ibizan party culture, expanding on my idea that it can be seen as a kind of neopilgrimage. I started noticing strong parallels between religious or historical pilgrimages and the way Brits travel to Ibiza, often repeating the same rituals, chasing a sense of transformation, release, or belonging—just in a very different setting.

The installation plays with these comparisons through five elements:

Cymatic Laser on Cyanotype – A cyanotype print shows laser-generated cymatic patterns from the spoken word “pilgrimage.” It’s mounted high on the wall, referencing the star followed by the three wise men—a kind of symbolic guide for this modern, hedonistic journey.
VIP Last Supper – A huge fabric print of a photo I took in a VIP area in Ibiza. It reminded me of The Last Supper—not in a literal sense, but in the way it captured this weird mix of performance, reverence, and group dynamics that often show up in nightlife spaces.
Modern Nativity Gifts – My take on the traditional offerings of gold, frankincense, and myrrh—updated for Ibiza: Superdrug earrings, Dior Sauvage, and pink coke. These are the new symbols of value, status, and initiation within this scene.
Babe Shrine – A small shrine made with poppers, a photo of a british lady outside Café Mambo, and a Tumblr quote. It’s a tribute to the sincerity and absurdity that coexist in nightlife and online spaces.
Cymatic Hymn Mix – Shown on an old monitor, this video loop features cymatic visuals from a sound mix I made combining the hymn “God Leads Us Along” with “Ibiza” by The Manor. It’s a clash of the sacred and the profane, and it sort of captures the spiritual chaos of the whole thing.
A lot of this was loosely informed by Claude Lévi-Strauss’s ideas about myth—how the same kinds of stories and patterns repeat across cultures, even if the symbols change. Ibizan Epiphany looks at how those patterns show up in places we don’t usually think of as “spiritual,” and how nightlife can hold its own kind of ritual, meaning, and myth-making.

Ibizan Ascension is a continuation of the ideas I explored in Ibizan Epiphany, this time digging deeper into the subtle religious undertones of Ibiza’s party culture. The work still uses cymatic patterns to explore how sound and language carry mythic weight—pulling from Claude Lévi-Strauss’s idea of mythemes (core building blocks of myth) and translating them into a more chaotic, sunburned context. The piece was also partially inspired by a surreal moment when I saw Luca Bish in Ibiza airport while me and my flatmate Flo were having a pint from Burger King. That kind of low-stakes transcendence sits right at the heart of this work.

The installation is made up of five parts:

Ryanair ascension – Found footage of people getting mash up on a flight to Ibiza is overlaid with an audio reading of 2 Kings 2:2, a passage describing the prophet Elijah ascending to heaven. It’s shown on an old crt monitor.
Rio de Janeiro Filter Screen – I poured molten glass wax over a printed image of a Renaissance painting depicting Elijah’s ascension. This version survived after two others cracked in the process, which somehow felt right. It acts as a kind of warped filter—half religious icon, half club bathroom mirror.
flaming charriot – In the Bible, Elijah gets taken up in a fiery chariot. In this version, it’s a plaster cast of a rolled up €10 note i found in my pocket on new years day. surrounded by a fire emoji shape made from leftover pink coke from Ibizan Epiphany. It’s part relic, part iconography, part evidence.
Pink Chariot – I scanned the same €10 note used in the cast and printed it onto a laser-cut wooden chariot. Drawing the shape in Illustrator nearly broke me, but it brings together divine transport and tourist economy in one strange object.
Cymatic Map – A series of cyanotype prints work almost like a blueprint or map of the sculpture’s ideas. They stand in for the theoretical threads running through the work—language, repetition, ritual, and the transformation of the everyday into the mythic. this was my first time trying to use cymatics in this way.

Ibizan Ascension continues to play with the idea that modern mythologies don’t happen in temples or texts—they happen in airports, on party flights, and in weird, glowing moments that feel bigger than they should. And Luca Bish, if you ever see this: do not fumble Grace.