Artist Statement
At the heart of my practice is a preoccupation with the interplay between our internal worlds and external landscapes. How do we relate to the land, and how is that relationship mediated through desire and modes of consumption?
This has led me to examine contemporary shopping behaviour in the supermarket through the lens of renaissance foraging practices. I’ve also been exploring the way that farms have become more akin to factories, with biological principles displaced by industrial ones.
Reflecting my interest in liminal zones between internal and external worlds, the meticulously rendered dreamscapes I create are designed to evoke a sense of hypnagogia – that transitional period between wakefulness and sleep. Mesmerising pattern and repetitive mark-making draw the viewer into a world where figuration tips into abstraction. Human forms fragment or dissolve into shimmering pattern, blurring the boundary between the body and its environs.
