'We make things so that they will in turn remake us.'1 Elaine Scarry

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The starting point for my work is the interplay between the material and the immaterial. The daily interaction

between material, objects, imagination and numinosity fuels my practice. I am interested in the unseen, and

the subconscious narratives that interlace with the everyday; glitching and shape shifting between object,

memory and place. Past and future smashed together, public and private, ludicrous, ridiculous, flawed, yet

intrinsically profound.

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In my pursuit to reveal these leaky, unstable spaces, I create surreal and poetically charged objects, installations and films. These draw from the aesthetics, the materiality, and the shared narratives of the lived space. Materials are close at hand, cotton wool, discarded packaging, magazines, make up cases, furniture, mirrors, the language of the everyday. 

Influences come from as diverse sources as mediaeval iconography, through to the endless flow of mass digital content, often mixed together to articulate the strange and fragmented landscape of the contemporary self. I begin with the house, looking out, to an unsettling and melancholic world, using material, object and film as a language to unpick what I see.

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1 Sobchack, Vivian Carol. Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. https://hdl-handle-net.soton.idm.oclc.org/2027/heb08034.0001.001. PDF, p147.