My work is driven by both a passion for materials; I am fascinated by their properties and qualities, and an interest in objects and our relationship with them. In particular, it is the unremarkable yet familiar materials and objects that preoccupy me, things found in my own environment. They may appear to be insignificant, but in fact they have much to say. After all, our everyday lives are interwoven physically and emotionally with these every day things.

We are in a two-way relationship with objects; almost every part of our lives involves them. So it is no wonder that it is complex and fluid, changing with our needs and desires, experiences, time and of course context. Though they will always speak of us as people, and as a society, as that is what objects do; they symbolize human life. They are part of our identity.

My practice involves the manipulation and the re-presentation of materials and objects as a way to provoke the viewer into re-thinking them. Where and how an object is presented or seen changes the way we respond to it. In particular if things are shown in unexpected ways we will look at them differently. They will demand a level of attention and close scrutiny not usually given to the objects themselves. Being aware of how people look at or see something is an important consideration of my work, as this is not simply an automatic biological action involving our eyes, but is caught up with a whole host of things including memory and experience.

I am essentially plucking things from obscurity, as it seems that it is only through the abstraction of objects from the world that they and we belong that we can begin to see and understand that world.


My current work involves the casting of objects with tissue paper (white and black), PVA and water.