Never Never Mind is a video work that is projected as a continuous loop. It shows a sequence of pigeons flying in and out of the image frame - sometimes perched on it's bottom edge for a moment, only to be pushed off by another bird, sometimes hurled into the white background. It is shot in black and white and edited in a rough fast way which produces a nervous effect. Its repetition and soundtrack give it a hypnotic quality, at first comic like but as it progresses with a dark feel to it. The Soundtrack is by the Gregory Flickner Quintet. The footage was shot in Abigail's studio, Burbage House, London in 1997.

The work was first installed on a large screen positioned on the floor and propped up against a pillar at Andrehn Shiptjenko gallery, Sweden, in 1997. It was also shown at Chantal Crousel gallery later the same year (Another Time Another Place) and at Victoria Miro gallery, London, in 1998 (Abigail Lane, Never Never Mind). For both these exhibitions the film was projected onto a screen suspended and stretched out by wires fixed to the walls and floor. The work was also shown as part of Trance in the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1998 and in Switzerland, 1999 where it was projected directly onto the wall as part of the group exhibition Mayday at the Centre d'Art in Neuchatel. In 2003 the work was projected onto the outside of a derelict building in Whitechapel, London, as part of an exhibition curated by artist David Harrison, The Dead Bird Show.

In 2017 to celebrate the 25years of the Andrehn Shiptjenko gallery, Never Never Mind is re presented as a 3-projection installation.

Please see Zoo 1994-2017

Please also see Captivity page at baby forest website for more context together with embroidered spiders: https://babyforest.co/pages/1768