Kate Hammersley is an interdisciplinary artist who explores what it is like to live in a world in a state of flux. She has a particular interest in materials and materiality frequently pushing materials to the limits of their capability. In her photographs the artist explores ephemera and its relationship to events that shape human history.

RDH are the initials of the artist’s uncle who passed away during the pandemic having tested positive for COVID-19.  The text is cut from a letter about COVID-19 that all UK households received from the Prime Minister in March 2020.  The piece was created during lockdown and is suspended and photographed in the window of the house the artist’s uncle was born in.

This is one of a number of temporal text installations created across the world by the artist using local ephemera and newspapers which are photographed on location.