Border Control
2014 52cm x 52cm x 5cm
sculpture: wire, paper-mache and collaged archival photo

Refugees can pay traffickers substantial amounts of money to escape troubles in their countries and for the promise of a safe place to live but first they must survive the journey. In 2013, a boat crammed with people left Libya and sank off the coast of Lampedusa, Italy killing over 360 men, women and children reportedly from Palestine and Syria. Sadly, this tragic event has repeated numerous times since then, highlighting the incredible risks people are continuing to take. The subject of migration is a hot topic in many areas of the world: Australia with its' controversial offshore detention centres, the ongoing problems in Calais, France with migrants trying to advance further into Europe and the recent amnesty granted by Obama to millions of so-called  illegal immigrants. Border Control offers another subject which strongly divides opinion.