Selected works:

The work featured in this section illustrates my interest in the object, in materials and in site. There are themes and concepts that run throughout the work but a material or a place is usually the catalyst for research and enquiry.

Work is driven by a need to make connection with others and to connect to place. I return to themes and subject matter like an ongoing conversation, as I strive to get closer to a truth or an understanding of some aspect of the world. Subject matter includes man’s acquistion and harnessing of nature, of absence, ‘beauty’, loss and fragility. The materials employed are diverse but simple elements from life – found objects, yarn, fabric, minerals, glass, paper, plastic. Techniques include printmaking, gilding, photography, glass blowing, neon work and drawing.

Trained in Fine Art Printmaking I am drawn to the multiple and to repetition, in patterns of thought, action or behaviour and a struggle with the recognition of the ‘impossibility of things ever remaining the same’. There is a recurrence of binding or the holding of, and bringing of objects together in a futile attempt to protect things from ‘change’.

I have a deep interest in ‘place’ – what it is and how the individual may experience it, actually or psychologically and how we respond and relate to site. Recently I have been developing work that explores the potential of the language of textiles to connect people to site, referencing actions such as binding or sewing to implicate the mending of a metaphysical wound.

Einstein’s First Law of the Conservation of energy states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed: it can only be transformed from one state to another.

In my practice I return to Einstein’s First Law of the Conservation of Energy: interpreting this as the energy, time and intention invested in the creation of a work being as integral as the materials used – the action of human endeavour creating it’s charge.