A Passenger on
the Ship of Fools

Taking Hieronymus Bosch's The Ship of Fools as a point of departure — both visually and philosophically — this series of lithograph prints on suede reflects on the idea of being a passenger within systems of absurdity, disorientation, and moral ambiguity. In Bosch's original, figures feast, sing, and drift without direction, caught in an unmoored revelry that critiques the indulgences and follies of society.

Apples appear falling, tumbling, peeling, suspended — a seductive offering and temptation. Printed onto woven suede, the image fractures and reassembles across the lattice structure: never quite whole, always partially obscured, glimpsed through a system that simultaneously reveals and withholds. The suede ground — warm, tactile, animal — pulls against the cool geometry of the weave and the urgency of the mark.

Across three works, the relationship between colour and drawing shifts: from the charged orange and green of the first, through the deep crimson diagonals of the second, to the stripped-back natural suede of the third, where the drawing is most exposed. Each work is a different register of the same question.