My work is a vehicle to explore the unconscious, unspoken and intangible and is an exploration of human nature and our existence within the world. Recurring themes that arise are impermanence, ritual, emptiness, the in-between, restriction, limitation, claustrophobia and inertia.
The materiality of the work stems from an inquiring approach to process and an exploration of what different materials are capable of. Whether that be the conventional (oil, acrylic, charcoal, graphite etc..) or the less conventional (scrap metal, pine needles, tree gum, earth etc..). The process involves a series of intuitive and thoughtful interactions alongside, what feels like, a large dose of risk and uncertainty. It's this unpredictability and exploration of the unknown that has always kept the process alive for me and aims to gain a deeper understanding of tacit knowledge and how we communicate this through material.
