Adrian Lee

Spectre, 2024:

Until the mid 1990s many corner shops, newsagents and off licences had on their shop signs, prominent branding by cigarette brands until the practice was outlawed.

Twenty years later Ghost, (2012)was installed on am ex newsagents for ArtNight 17. When this piece was damaged it was reworked as Spectre (2024). Once again it retains the proportions and dimensions of the original, however this iteration renders the classic, flip-top box and the cigarettes it contains a line drawing - a transparent sketch-up of the object, devoid of detail, clinical and objective against the sky and surrounding buildings.

Photo by Nick Ferguson