Never Too Careful

Never Too Careful uses nearly 2,500 blocks of household laundry soap to make a wall that blocks part of the gallery space.

Walls can provide us with security, like the walls of a house, but they are also built to control people. People have always moved from place to place, but these days many countries want to restrict people's movement across their borders creating huge moral and political dilemmas around how refugees and asylum seekers are dealt with.

Questions of place, and where we belong in the world, underpin the work. Sounds of people moving about on the other side of the wall leave the viewer wondering whether they are on the inside or the outside, the right side or the wrong side of the wall.

The soap refers to an obsession with hygiene, at the domestic or local level, along with the fear of being overwhelmed by 'the great unwashed masses' at a national level.