The Play-Ground revisits the social world of childhood from the distance of adulthood, tracing the language, humour and memories that continue to resonate years later.

Drawing on familiar phrases, private jokes and shared codes, Half a Roast Chicken uses neon to revisit the things once written, shouted or passed between friends.

Removed from their original context and encountered again as adults, these fragments can take on an unexpected emotional weight. What once felt throwaway or funny becomes charged with memory.

The work considers how those early experiences of belonging, embarrassment, bravado and identity continue to echo into adult life.

The Play-ground sits somewhere between memory and experience — familiar, but altered by time.