I am interested in the paradoxes formed in common acts of repression that make modern lives possible; the elements of our psyche we are forced to disregard in order to safely exist in modern communities.

Taking the form of investigations into relationships with the leftover and the unwanted, my work alludes to narrative and physical impossibilities which confront modern-world stability and hold viewers in a state of flux between knowledge and expectation.

Through combinations of site-specific intervention, sculpture, installation, photography, film and performance; I re-appropriate the undesirable into forms that initiate internal conflicts aiming at confusion, tolerance, acceptance and enlightenment; manifested through ruptures of amusement, excitement and laughter.  An open mind with regards to media is essential as adaptation is integral to both form and content; artistic validity and cultural relevance always assumes priority over aesthetic sensibility.

Work often begins through investigations into the physical and socio-cultural locale of a project, where exploration and documentation forms a base which aims to engage and reflect surrounding communities/areas.  This exploration is pitted against dialogue and introspection; balancing mental and physical; harmonizing or upsetting established thinking.

In performative work I am typically subject to undesirable or highly restrictive/ exaggerative acts; exploring the hidden pleasures in banality, boredom and wasted time whilst investigating contradictions surrounding cultural emptiness and vacuity in modern western existences.  Integral to this is an interest in classification and definition; the phenomenology of waste, taste and failure.

I attempt to highlight our reliance on hidden acts and processes whose illumination may offend our highly socialized psyches.

Pedagogically, I aim to produce work that recognises the necessity of engaging and visceral experiences throughout daily existence as essential methods of the meaning-making activity requisite to the very act of becoming. 

2008