Biography
Statement
Skin that shifts and alters, battered and wounded, that protects yet exposes us. I take a closer look at myself. What do I know about myself? What do we remember about ourselves? Because memory lies in the body. Memory is the body. I observe and analyse and so reclaim the mystery and the memory of first contact. I gaze at my skin and that of others until I am able to discern its texture.
I look through it until, perhaps, the folds of a hand or of a clenched fist are reconfigured and give rise to a new landscape, a map that can be inhabited or explored: a sort of other existence harking back to the beginning.
In this artistic endeavour, I do not favour any particular medium, preferring to use whichever means is best suited to my intent. Painting and photography, and sometimes a combination of both, help bring my work to life. Moving images or videos, can express in a different way a tale, an inkling, a subtle connection, a story, a narrative. These are macro-perspectives on bodies and skin, conceived as a conduit to a moment in which words are cast aside and the memory of primordial silence is regained.
