Artist Statement
For my practice I’m interested in visibility, permanence, the idea of the trace and memory. I’m interested in questioning the fixed identities of objects and materials so they defy usual definitions and expectations, or, as the artist Tom Friedman has commented, ‘Testing what matter is by allowing it not to be’.
Central to my practice are ideas of displacement: is the location of material central to its definition so that if it is displaced from its ‘real’ context can it still be regarded as the same object, where then does it exist, if at all? I am interested in how the re-assembling of such material, or discarded aspects of known objects, can start to question the boundaries of the ‘real’ by creating a tension between the literal and abstract readings of these objects as signifiers.
My practice is investigative in its nature and form, moving between object, process, event and performance. I don’t ‘create’ objects but work with already existing matter to collapse the distance between art and the mundane, exploring the poetic and often absurd potential of the everyday.
Two fans, 2011
Rubbish pile and fan, MA Degree show, 2011
Cans and shelves, MA Degree Show, 2011
Cans and shelves, detail, MA DEgree Show, 2011
Can and shelves, detail, MA Degree Show, 2011
Cable and wheel, MA Degree Show, 2011
Cable and wheel, detail, MA Degree Show, 2011
Branch, carrier bag and fan, MA Degree Show, 2011
Branch, carrier bag and fan, detail, MA Degree Show, 2011
