Biografia
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
My practice is concerned with the production and maintenance of ‘openness’/’spaciousness’, which could be defined as the ground where you can no longer distinguish between self and other. More specifically, it is a concern with mental openness over physical openness.
The main theme within my work is the perceptive dynamics of encountering found objects and situations whereby the viewer’s habitual semantic/judgmental processes are slowed down, as issues such as ownership prove difficult to define. More recently I have become interested in the theme of sound as creator and signifier of openness/spaciousness. As Roland Barthes states in his essay Écoute ‘By the perception of degrees of remoteness and of regular return of phonic stimulus…for the human being the appreciation of space is a matter of sound.’
With regard to working methodology I try to use methods that compliment the theoretical framework of the practice including; assemblage, appropriation (specifically re-interpretation and re-contextualisation), using a combination of visual and audio hardware and software along with traditional mediums, intersecting mediums and art and architecture.
The practice is multi-disciplinary and includes; photography, installation, sculpture, sound and video. The work is formulated through; drawing, photography, and the collection of found imagery and objects.
The practice is inspired by Buddhist practices and philosophies, existing art that is: concept art, expressionism and minimalism and music.
