My background is in painting and I have explored installation and expanded painting techniques throughout this MFA. Each project is approached distinctly, using materials chosen for their affective and associative resonances. A personal lexicon such as Casper the Friendly Ghost, or a rose, are chosen for their mnemonic quality, to translate certain memories and ‘fix’ them in the present, instead of using language.
The ways in which we experience the world and how we translate these impressions to ourselves in private, divergent ways are the key philosophical underpinnings of my practice. When examined, gaps and slippages occur across translation of image to word, through attempts to translate experience; to ‘simply’ communicate. I take a personal, phenomenological stance to this; my work is an alternative to using linguistic structures only to codify.

Tribute (to), A4 perspex sheets, rice paper, coloured pencil, wood, dimensions variable

Self-soother, oil on linen, 46 x 35.5cm

Installation view

Locus, oil on linen, 25 x 30cm

Flower Burial, table, carbon paper, rice paper, glue

Installation view

Sign to look out for, rice paper, ink, coloured pencil, glue, wood, 6 x 5cm