KEBABARAMA (1999)
A series of photo-based works featuring London kebab shop signs
I've always enjoyed the kebab signs in London. They are evidence of an ethnic presence of mainly Turkish and Greek immigrants within the multi-cultural London scene. They signal the survival of individually owned businesses in an age of increasing multinational franchise. The myriad idiosyncratic variants of the same basic lumpen graphic form have an iconic presence and mouth-watering effect within the London streetscape. When the surrounding architecture is removed and the kebab motifs are isolated (as in the printed-out photo composites which I produced), they take on a strange heraldic character.
