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Skull Portrait Series 1996-2006

I began to make skull portraits in order to reveal and record who my subjects were 'inside' as opposed to how they appeared on the surface.

I leave you with a quote from Kahil Gibran's 'The Madman, his parables and poems'.

"I have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that was but a single countenance as if held in a mould.

I have seen a face whose sheen I could look through to the ugliness beneath, and a face whose sheen I had to lift to see how beautiful it was.

I have seen an old face much lined with nothing, and a smooth face in which all things were graven.

I know faces because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath".

And a quote from Nietzsche's 'My Sister and I':

"Every occupation of man requires of him the wearing of a mask symbolizing his peculiar trade. These masks are in no way assumed, they grow out of people as they live, the way skin grows, the way fur devlops over skin. There are masks for the merchants as well as for the professors, there are masks that fit thieves and there are masks that look natural only on saints. The greatest of all the masks is nakedness. If I believed in God, this would be the mask I would conceive him in".


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Valerie de Cadenet 21.6.96
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Eleanor Berry 12.12.97
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Alexander de Cadenet 7.1.98
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Boley 7.1.98
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Anna de Cadenet 7.1.98
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The Earl Compton 7.1.98
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Yasmin le Bon 14.1.98
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Kirsten Lea 28.1.98
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Petrina Khashoggi 18.2.98
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Edward Lucie-Smith 18.3.98
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Cindy Jackson 26.5.98
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Isabel Goldsmith 23.7.98
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Kim Ortiz Patiño 3.8.98
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Simón Ortiz Patiño 3.8.98.
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Anthony Noel-Kelly 13.8.98
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Stirling Moss 23.2.99
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Jonathan Aitken 11.3.99
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Sebastian Sainsbury 23.3.99
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Amanda de Cadenet 5.4.99
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The Marquis of Bath 15.4.99
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Gavin Turk 12.5.99
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Stephen Hendry 25.5.99
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Birgit Cunningham 28.6.99
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John Stephens and Rory Keegan 8.7.99
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Nick Boler 17.8.99
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Philipp Bouteiller 17.8.99
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Sarah-Jane Boler 17.8.99
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Chief Birikani of the Maasai 29.10.99
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Angus James 7.12.99
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Muslim Imam Atioaha 18.01.00
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Protestant Priest Abram 19.1.00
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Jewish Rabbi 24.1.00
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Catholic Nun Elizabeth Smith 25.1.00
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Tibetan Buddhist Lama Geshi Tashi 1.2.00
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The Wells Family 26.2.00
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Ben Hanly 20.3.00
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Simon Lee 25.5.00
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Manolo Mestre 19.03.01
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Manolo Mestre 19.3.01
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Jake Chapman 19.3.02
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Dinos Chapman 19.3.02
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Libette Sterling 11.6.02
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Pharoah Tutankhamun 13.11.02 (completed)
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Glenmore Trenear-Harvey 13.11.02
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Vince Sullivan 30.4.03
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Anthony Sharp 21.5.03
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Adolf Hitler 12.6.03 (completed)
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Mike Skinner 29.9.03
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Martin Sexton 3.03.04
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Jimmy Cauty 3.3.04
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Paul Hitchman 3.3.04
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Bianca Madison 15.4.04
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Lady Ami Gordon 15.04.04
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Jean-Francois Dor 22.07.04
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Dan Morrell 19.08.04
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Beena Hayer 24.11.04
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Helen Wilson 24.11.04
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Maurice Marshall 24.11.04
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Erica Taylor 3.3.05
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Angelo Valentino 11.3.05
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Robert and John MacCulloch 1.4.05
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Robin Hanbury Tenison 25.5.05
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Miranda Twiss 23.6.05
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Gregor Fisken 18.7.05
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Seamus Hoar 21.10.05
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Seamus Hoar 15.11.05
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Labyrinth: The Portrait of Adolf Hitler (completed 05.12.05)
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Dany and James Ardouin 8.12.05
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Maxime de Cadenet 23.5.06
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Amelia Gatte 27.7.06
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