Artistic Practice
I’m a multi-form artist working in drawing, printmaking, photography, film, sound, live art, performance, writing and participatory works. My work responds to personal experiences, which are either immediate or reflective. Immediate primarily focuses on my engagement in and with a ‘place’, with works exploring Place Attachment, Psychogeography, and Sense of Place. Reflective works respond to memories, hopes, and societal events.
Current research is informed by Sense of Place and Psychogeography, documenting my relationship with new and personally significant spaces through sound, film, photography, drawing, and print.
Layers are essential throughout every element of my practice. Within my drawings and prints, there are layers of movement, gesture, and mark-making. In the sound, photography, and film works; layers of sound and images portray memory, experience and emotional, political, societal references. My travel diaries fuse chronological recordings of activities with reflections on emotional and behavioural experiences of a journey or place. All works are layered and imbued with meaning.
I carefully collect and curate images, films, and snippets of sound which on the surface might catalogue aesthetic, sociological, or political reference points, but will also hold emotional, experiential, or psychological connections, reactions, or memories infused within them; all stored, queuing for the right time to be used.
This museum relates closely to my creative message, they have a key to my internal dialogue and a true relationship to the psychology of the time of their selection, a resonance or a bell that chimes with the right atmosphere. When selected, these documentations communicate on many levels; either laden with references, or capturing fleeting moments, and all that is heard, seen or felt is highlighting the ephemeral nature of existence.