Artist Statement

I work across drawing, painting, sculpture and installation - with paint and graphite, as well as unconventional materials, and from observational to abstract.

I make objects and temporary interventions which I often locate outside gallery settings. I am particularly interested in our environments; how we build, negotiate and use them. Histories are worn in the fabric, alterations, additions to structures.

How do we use public, shared and domestic spaces? What and who are they are for? I am interested in exploring the possibilities for reconnecting, celebrating, questioning the places and spaces we use; in noticing; in agency.

The fetishisation of objects manifests itself in gallery, museum, religious, shared and domestic contexts-even retail spaces. Forming small or sprawling collections, they are telling portraits of lives and preoccupations. Exploring the role of ornaments, tools, furniture is a not only a way to investigate the intentions of the maker, but to trace changes in 'taste'; materials, status, ways of making. What is celebrated, what is kept?

Uses, materials, contexts change. Always in a state of flux, meaning is formed and reformed. The relationship between the readymade and mass-produced or commemorative objects; between luxury, ephemera, trash and ordinary, is rich and fascinating.