current projects
For as long as I can remember I have been intrigued by the interplay between the invisible and the visible in the spaces and objects we create, inhabit and surround ourselves with. My practise is therefore transdisciplinary in scope. I love architecture, installation (in situ), sculpture, photography, drawing and print. Equally, I love materials as each contains its own poetry and it is through the coupling of ideas, concepts, materials and the modality that I can coax a layered space, a space where blurs, overlaps, and leaks occur. I love proportion, scale, and pattern and see these as intrinsic to both method and material. I love paradox, metaphor, fragments and simultaneous meanings that collide, reveal and reconcile. I am always hoping to find balance between excess, withholding, editing and clarity. Though photography figures greatly in my work, I am reluctant to say I am a photographer because the language of photography is about light at play and I would say that though I am interested very much in light, trace, transparency and shadows my ambitions lie in the fascination with space. Photographs often present themselves with a verity and what I am interested in is the space that is occupied and activated by an engagement with the unknowable and the simultaneousness. Architecture and sculpture often provide that envelope in which to act out that play between conscious and unconscious. It is often said of my work that it is very beautiful and though I don’t set out to make beautiful work I always seem to bring that component to it. As well there are often political and psychological footnotes that bleed into my thoughts and find place in the work. It is all these desires, and the unexpected that provides an engagement and reciprocity with the spectator and makes visible that which is often perceived as invisible.
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