Valerie Grove Artist
Collage and Objects 

In the late 90s I made a number of collage works often with politcal themes. Unfortunately most of these no longer exist. Some disappeared after exhibitions, some disintegrated and others were recycled. The ones I still have, or at least have an image of, are here.  
Millenium
Started in 1998 and completed in 2000. 

Two decades on this work is currently featured in an online exhibition that looks at artists who have used maps or the concept of mapping in their work.  The whole exhibition can be seen here YOU ARE HERE
or on Instagram @katmapped 
In Case Of Emergency (1999)
 
A series of 72 Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs were published between 1939 and 1945, and are now collectors’ items.   In this work, No. 53, ‘The Arsenal of Democracy’, has been transformed into a functional object.  The work was a comment on how military capability had primarily become a 'functional' tool for enforcing ideological objectives and state power, rather than a tool of deterrence and defence. It was also an expression of  frustration at how little has been learned about the exercise of military power since these pamphlets were published.
Sex Education (1998-99)
 
In the late 90s, the interiors of London telephone boxes were covered with sex cards. These postcards often used nationality or race as the selling point and on several occasions 'new' nationalities would appear shortly before the announcement of a UK trade deal with that country or region. As always, the illegal trade seemed to be a step ahead and at this time sex-trafficking was not in the lexicon or understood in the way it is now. The cards completely changed the atmosphere and experience of using the iconic red phone box and put it very much at odds with the nostalgic Britishness invoked by its appearance on postcards for global tourists.
The Outer-national Grid (There's always some weather somewhere)
For Art not Oil 2006

This photo is downloaded from the Art not Oil website. It's the only image I have. I wasn't there to collect it at the end of the exhibition and it disappeared. No idea where it ended up or even if it still exists. You can' t really tell from this how huge it was or see much detail. It had electrical wire connecting a global grid of wind, solar and hydropower images above and between the hugely encroaching oil slicks. It also included information and commentary on a range of issues relevent to fossil fuel pollution, climate change and the development of renewables.