Artist statement
I am interested in how we react to the world, how we form our truths, perceive ourselves, and how we change our opinions.
To exist humans interact and react to each other and it is this interrelationship that truly shapes the world we live in. With my practice I endeavour to create dialogues around this malleable framework, to shift boundaries around established thinking and to open doors into new possibilities. A blend of making and showing, influenced by the writings of Martin Heidegger and Joseph Bouys, unfolds new approaches, creating movement and change. Once this has happened there can be no undoing, going back to what was before. This change or movement, filters into and across our lives, affecting how we see the world and inevitably how we react to others in that world, it forever changes who we are.
I consider myself a painter, working in the expanded field. I develop ideas in a syncretistic manner, freely experimenting with form and colour, not holding myself to one process above another, desiring the immediacy of expressive mark marking, through to the representation of video. I work independently and collaboratively, embracing whichever is more suited to the outcome.
I believe if we democratise the act of making we can create change for the better, for all.