Biography
Royal College of Art, MA Sculpture, 2015
Byam Shaw School of Art, BA(Hons) 1997
I am an artist working with sculpture, drawing and film/video. My interest lies in transcribing the landscape, leakage of time and memory. I am fascinated with the greater experiences in the visible landscape (weather, seasons, horizons) but also the ubiquitous but silent occurrences that trace or mark the physical world (a crack in a frozen lake, the travel of a broken branch or the path of a water droplet across the surface of a leaf).
An inter-play between ‘Japanese aesthetics’ (Wabi-Sabi, Ikebana, Tsubo-Niwa) and the vernacular of post-war European Modernism has increasingly become revealed through my practice. In some sense I attempt to transcribe/vitrify a haiku into a formal yet playful objects, an object/s clearly routed in an abstract traditon but invites the viewer to muse/tease/extract a visual stanza: a beginning, middle and a end.
Other sculptures are treated with an economic touch, some sculptures take on a reductionist approach: metal beams cut, folded and configured are then covered by an enamel coat or NASA astronomical instrument coating, works are presented directly onto the gallery floor. These sculptures are realized from documented traces in video format of raindrops across a windowpane or shadows crossing the wall and ceiling, an attempt to vulcanise ephemeral moments into the permanence of form as object.
