Artist Statement

Once, in a museum I was struck by the mummified remains of ‘bog man’. The shrivelled body of a man who, in crouching position behind the glass cabinet, had lived over two thousand years ago. This collision of the present and past made me almost giddy.

My practice is about creating entities, forms and experiences that resonate with an awkwardness and uncertain state of flux. They are not of the present, but languish, suspended in nebulous interstitial moment.

Promiscuous and nomadic, moving between 2 and 3 dimensions, embracing painting and ceramics, my work explores the tensions, fragility and uncomfortable process of being. I explore an anthropomorphic and almost sensual way the monuments, artefacts and sculptures that make up our collective human history. References are purposefully eclectic, ranging across many cultures and multiple historic periods. Emerging forms and figures have a universal and timeless feel.

These precarious and evolving forms reference the enormity of our collective human histories as well as a tension between image, icon and their reproduction. Fragments are recycled, with my hand built ceramic forms reappearing in sections of paintings. Both my sculptures and paintings at times mirror each other in a ‘mise en abyme’ that highlights both a loss in translation as well as the infinite reproduction of being. Suspended in an eerie twilight zone these works are about potential. It is not entirely clear whether the work is in construction or a state of collapse. There is no fixed narrative and this unravelling creates a space for potential narratives to emerge.