Things that are thrown away or lost  can tell us as much about the past as many of those items we carefully preserve for posterity. Collected by archaeologists, beachcombers and photographers, these bits of rubbish can be and are used to tell stories with varying degrees of objectivity.

Wonderful Things is my first cabinet of curiosities. In it I have tried to capture a sense of the objects I routinely find on my local beaches, the odd juxtapositions, even the humour of an hour or two spent rummaging through a collection of flotsam and jetsam. The stories they tell are ephemeral – swept in an out on the tides of both the sea and the imagination – the cabinet preserves just some of them.

Find a copy in my Blurb bookstore: Wonderful things