Primarily I consider myself a sculptor but I work in many types of media including installation, photography, plasterwork, metalwork, ceramics, digital collage, drawing, painting, sound, moving image and an occasional performance piece.
My work is inspired by themes such as memories, identity, barriers, reflection, philosophy, symbolism, loss, and environmental issues. I enjoy juxtaposition. For example, I often use industrial materials then add something softer as a counterpoint, hopefully provoking consideration. I choose materials that are symbolic or have some meaning either inherently or through reference or association. A broken feather could be lost freedom, a dried flower the memory of something beautiful. Barbed wire speaks of barriers or obstacles and bandage may imply healing.
I love textures, patina and shadows, feeling that the history of an object is written in the patina and that shadows can infer an object that is, itself, unseen. They are a sort of memory.
Tending towards the abstract, my work aims to be both meaningful and aesthetically pleasing. The artworks do have context, but I also wish the viewer to form their own interpretation believing that art should be an experience open to all and there should never be a right or a wrong. I want my work to be approachable.
