My favourite moments since arriving on Ocracoke have been the spontaneous ones where a found object gives me an idea and I then lose myself in the making process.
Before they left the island Jim and Laura left me an empty cigar box with no objective other that it might be useful. I’m so glad they did.
In the middle of the night I woke with an idea of turning it into another experimental beach installation.
The video below tells the story of what happened next.
Steve is a self-taught “outsider” artist known for his distinctive black and white drawings, his colourful paintings, his 3D wooden cut-outs and his unusual conceptual art projects such as the globally viral “(Not a) Lost Cat” project and “Sound of Silence”, the world’s first silent podcast featuring special guests. He has held various solo exhibitions around the UK and was Artist in Residence at Glen Dye in Scotland in 2022.
Steve finds the World a fascinatingly bizarre place and creates art to give his hyperactive imagination an outlet. His work has been described as “art which captures so well how weird and imperfect the world is.”
Steve is at his best when he doesn’t quite know what he is doing
