My practice draws upon a concern with the shifting value of things. It also evolves from a fascination with the transformative potential of mundane materials and the transient impact of light on form, surface and space. Through experiment and physical play I open my work up to chance and spontaneity. This fuels a curiosity and desire to create new forms and physical interventions that may reveal the poetics of very simple things.

Although drawing and printmaking often form starting points for inquiry, my practice is underpinned by an interest in facture - the act of physically making and creating material form. Evidence of the rhythm of labour and time sustained in the making is imbedded in the work in the hope of retaining honest connections between the material, process and form itself. 

 

Working with anything from tissue paper to broken glass, I am curious about the emotions and sensations that materials and objects provoke. I am motivated by the excitement of their shifting possibilities and the potential of revealing something meaningful within them.

In physically rescuing, manipulating and reworking them, my aim is to re-present materials that linger in the background of our everyday landscape to discover new sculptural forms that emotionally challenge our understanding of the familiar and our responses to the strange.

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