Europe the Game (2002–2025)

‘Europe the Game’ is 54 oil on wooden panel paintings of landscapes from a birds eye view. It is an interactive painting, meaning that audiences are asked to choose which of the 54 landscapes fit into the frame of Europe. The frame can contain a maximum of 36 landscapes. Audiences choose what is Europe and what isn’t.

Each time it is played, a different version, a different vision, of Europe is created. Sometimes audiences battle over which is the right version. It took 3 years to research and paint. And many more years to fight over.

Europe the Game was most recently shown at the Hangar Space at the Battersea campus of Royal College of Art, curated by Hesi Glowacki and Karolina Lebek.
It has also been shown Volkenkunde Museum, Leiden, Netherlands (video here); Nieuw Dakota / Translocal Art Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands (curated by Lora Sariaslan, Wayne Modest, and Chiara de Cesari with Kiko Aebi and Anna Sejbæk Torp-Pedersen); Chateau, Alba-La-Romaine, France 2011 (curated by Charles Hustwick); Beaconsfield Gallery, London, open mike session and originally at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
and Priory Meadow Shopping Centre, Hastings (curated by Maud Belleguic and Judith Stewart).

54factorial permutations of Europe with 54/36factorial exclusions
at any one time.
An interactive, participatory oil painting
54 birds eye view landscape paintings can fit into a frame that
includes a maximum of 36 paintings.

Rules of engagement:
1) The boundary of Europe is marked.
2) Each participant chooses one painting they believe is Europe
3) Each participant places their piece of Europe inside the boundary
4) Players take turns to fill the marked territory of Europe
5)When Europe is filled, players negotiate which pieces belong in Europe and which must come out.
6) The game ends when all players agree on what belongs in Europe