INTRODUCTION

THE OLD JOYS DOT COM is the website of the artist Duncan Ward. Its structure is reflective of the fact that, when it was first put together, Duncan was working predominantly in performance art, but that chapter actually finished many years ago (and indeed a number of the drawings of performances in the titular THE OLD JOYS section have since been destroyed). The sections on film similarly represent a project long since abandoned. Anyone seeking a representative idea of what Duncan's work is currently like would be best off heading directly to the OTHER WORKS section.

It is worth noting that, in 2022, Duncan decided to have no new ideas from that point on but simply to continue working with old things: to cultivate the garden, so to speak, like Candide and his friends at the end of Voltaire's novella ("mais il faut cultiver notre jardin").

Those wishing to see Duncan's work in the flesh are advised to try Blackheath, where an unsolicited public artwork can usually be found at the edge of one of the ponds there (Diana's Pond a.k.a. Folly Pond, the one just beside Greenwich Park). The piece will continue to come and go but the second version is still extant in situ at time of writing.