‘Tournament of the Dirty Nurse’
2006
The insertion of the sculpture’s airlifting within a military exercise. The performance was executed by the sculptor and Fleet Air Arm's Commando Squadron 846 NAS and its elite MAOT [ Mobile Air Operations Team ]. Both units actively involved in the Gulf War at the time with the performance carried out by their HQ.
'I have wallowed, I have washed--the world
Is flesh and shadow--I have had my day.
The dirty nurse, Experience, in her kind
Hath fouled me'
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King, The Last Tournament
Tournament of the Dirty Nurse
2006
300 x 300 x 220cms
steel, canvas, coir rope, wood
Performance:
Installed on a peak in the Brecon Beacons, South Wales
Theatre (Shouting with a Little Stick)
2011
275cms x 150cms x 150cms
Kevlar, carbon fibre, aluminium, steel, wood, limestone, 'guards tunic' wool felt, polyester canvas, nylon
Performance - Installation afloat a flooded sink hole Brecon Beacons
MAIDEN VOYAGE
2007
86cms x 100cms x 264cms
Polyester canvas, wood, steel acrylic, aqua-lung apparatus:
Performance / manoeuvre cave dive in White Lady Hole , South Wales
Sculpture: Germs of Empire [Deptford Sign]
Date: 2023
Artist: Michael Lisle-Taylor
Installation: at the 'Bone Beds Deptford'. A site where you can see discarded bones from salt beef & salt pork production at the Royal Navy's primary Victualling Yard Deptford London 1513-1961 . The bones were used in the related sculpture Germs of Empire. The Title comes from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, the passage reflects on the River Thames and Empire ending “The dreams of men, the seeds of commonwealths, the germs of empires.”.
‘Interloper’ [Germs of Empire]
2018
210 x 56 x 20cms
Canvas printed with ‘Germs of Empire’, surf board
Performance: Da Nang 2018
‘Crossing the T’
2019
Rifle Case (Peli), Royal Navy Battle Ensign, nylon mesh, para cord.
1366mm x 419mm x170mm
Installation:
‘Crossing the T’ [Cape Trafalgar, of Los Caños de Meca]
2019
Royal Navy Battle Ensign
11’ 6” x 5’ 6” variable
