Graham Gingles’ constructed boxes have been described as ‘repositories of memory’. Like theatre sets, where spaces unfold gradually, these intricate constructions incorporate objects made by the artist. Gingles also draws on a vocabulary of architectural forms and symbols (life, death, relics). The Kiss is a memorial piece inspired by Victorian mourning jewellery:
'I am interested in what we leave behind after we die, even small trivial things, like the blotted lipstick print of lips on a piece of paper ...a printed image of a rose; actually the last rose she [artist’s friend] was given before she died'.
