Artist Statement
- I believe that art has the power to provoke positive social change or awaken a shift in an audiences’ perception. This assertion drives my practice.
- I find the self-constructed complexities of our modern world fascinating.
- My years spent growing up are exactly divided in half, in inner city London and half in a village in the West Country. I was brought up by my divorced parents and their new families. This consists of ten siblings and endless “relations” all leading very different lives. My experiences and growth were full of contrasts and a need to empathise with people. The ideas of contrasts is inside most of my work.
- I am fascinated by people and endeavour to engage as wide an audience as possible. This is often achieved by working spontaneously, sometimes using as element of humour or the surreal and through the use of tactile materials.
- Through an understanding of materiality and form I feel you are able to evoke a pure individual perception on a very base, instinctive level. This is a massive intent in my work, to try and speak through materials. As is the desire to simply produce a gasp in the viewer, to suspend them for a moment in my perception.
