Welcome
The manipulation of materials plays a key role in my assemblages which are used to depict the emotions and shared encounters experienced within the urban space and to allude to wider environmental concerns.
My practice is situated in the field of extended painting in which I borrow approaches from painting, sculpture and conceptual fashion. Favouring process over image making, I follow in a long line of artists challenging what painting is and what it does.
My sculptural paintings aim for a tension between touch and vision with each arrangement being a twisting and weaving of materials and emotions.
I am interested in the notion of vulnerability with my work often responding to the spaces between strength and fragility, control and spontaneity, familiarity and uncertainty.
Traditional and unconventional materials sees acrylic and ink-stained canvas layered and entwined with an array of repurposed and salvaged textiles and unconventional materials to encapsulate a sense of both connectedness and entanglement.
My process of layering and distorting of boundaries is often a journey where the unexpected and accidental often occurs delivering an element of curiosity and the inexplicable.
I aim to shift and distort boundaries between mediums to offer different perspectives on an experience and am intrigued by materials that can be shaped by hand, which ‘remember’ the actions performed on them, and reflect these moments in the finished piece.
Latest from the blog
Urban Meditations Group Show ...Keep Reading
My work ‘Landfill Stratigraphy’ is currently showing in Articulate Project Space's 'Earth' exhibition and offers a statement on the environmental impact of landfill....Keep Reading
Delighted to be participating in the Factory 49 Tribute Exhibition at Articulate Project Space: 9-31 March 2024. Artists included are those that showed their non-objective and material-based artworks at Factory 49 from 2016 - 2021. ...Keep Reading
The artwork ' The Choices We Make' is made from recycled denim sourced from recycled jeans and alludes to the ritual compulsive buying encouraged within the fast fashion industry...Keep Reading
Two of my works have been selected by Site: Brooklyn juried by Rachel Gugelberger for the online exhibition 'New Painting'. ...Keep Reading
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