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Layering of material and metaphor play a key role in my assemblages and are used to depict the emotions and shared encounters experienced within the urban space.
My practice is situated in the field of extended painting in which I borrow approaches from painting, sculpture and fiber art. Favouring process over image making, I follow in a long line of artists challenging what painting is and what it does.
My sculptural paintings aim for a tension between touch and vision with each arrangement being a twisting and weaving of materials and emotions.
I am interested in the notion of vulnerability with my work often responding to the spaces between strength and fragility, control and spontaneity, familiarity and uncertainty.
The manipulating of traditional and unconventional materials sees acrylic and ink-stained canvas layered and entwined with an array of repurposed and salvaged textiles and unconventional materials to encapsulate a sense of both connectedness and entanglement.
My process of layering and distorting of boundaries is often a journey where the unexpected and accidental often occurs delivering an element of curiosity and the inexplicable.
I aim to shift and distort boundaries between mediums to offer different perspectives on an experience and am intrigued by materials that can be shaped by hand, which ‘remember’ the actions performed on them, and reflect these moments in the finished piece.
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