Artist Statement
Through many different methods and ideas, I investigate formal and material qualities as a main inquiry through using found objects in installations to bring forth the often unnoticed from the everyday realm into the context of the gallery. The other aspect of my practice is taking photographs of certain scenarios in the world that demand my attention based on intuition. This criterion is based on colour, shape, composition, position, texture, and many other factors, similar to my studio process.
I enjoy using mainly organic or industrial colours in installations, because I can then contrast this with small amounts of powerfully vibrant, fluorescent and ‘unnatural’ colours. Mainly, I focus on sculptural work, based on very similar criteria to the discovered images, and they range from wall-based installations to configurations that inhabit the entire space by employing freestanding entities and aspects that are integrated into the architecture of the site, however they all draw qualities from expanded painting. The way I then take photographs of the work (due to its temporality) helps me show its painterly attributes, and I have gradually thought of them more as paintings as I have explored and developed my practice.
The fact that I take the installations down after documentation means that the photographic element of my practice is very important, as it shows their time-based nature and is a very good way of recording the work, and the images act as surviving accounts of the work. The other part of the photography side of my practice is finding of scenarios that I see as having ‘’sculptural potential’’. This element is important to me as it expands my practice beyond just the studio, diversifies my work, contextualises it, and inspires me in the studio, informing and influencing the work that I make. So, often my installations can be inspired by road works for example, and this is a link to the everyday, as I find beauty in banal, mundane objects due to the simplicity of them. These photographs are also subject to becoming part of installations, as they reflect aspects they are accompanied by for a coherent flow of materials and objects that make sense in context.