Biography
Much of my work as an artist is a response to the flowing narratives of nature, and to the wealth of languages that nature has developed that tell us its stories. Intentionally, my images slip and slide between the descriptive and the abstract, or what I prefer to think of as the concentrated. I seek to excite in the viewer a sense of attention, provoking thoughts and feelings that encourage a curiosity about what is around them, what they are part of, what lies beyond the visible.
I make my artworks with a camera yet I see them as closer to painting than to photography, carrying a different emotional charge, and extending a different tradition. I see my creative journey as being a tight manouevre through the gaps between painting, photography and the moving image. This is why I choose to work with prints on to many different media, including paper and various fabrics, large format translucency and projection, sometimes in the same exhibition space. I feel a strong affinity to the white cube, the gallery, the museum, but I also seek to break out of the frame, to present work in contexts that are unbound by the rules of the academy, the critic, the marketplace.
