Biography
Through looking at objects I explore notions of memory, solitude, dream, reverie and loss. Something unquantifiable about the forms I investigate captivates me. The subjects of my works often appear ambiguous and alien to their surroundings. Reminiscent of contemporary artefacts, they possess a haunting sense of ‘displacement’, suggesting that they are not of this time, raising questions about whether they reside in the past or the future, or are real or fictitious.
I am interested in the multiplicity of meanings the objects possess and the tensions that exist between their ambiguities of form, scale and context. I explore the relationship between the incidental and the laboured, the arbitrary and the unpredictable. The works allude to an uncertainty of their function.
The unpredictable nature of the materials I use and the way that I use them indirectly governs the process. Accidents and interventions become important visual events. A tension exists between the actuality of the sculptures and the quasi metaphysical nature of the paintings. The sculptures possess a strange sense of clunky yet sometimes elegant minimalism and share a common sensibility that bridges this tension of ‘low tech’ versus ‘high tech’. Simultaneously knowing and not knowing.
