STATEMENT:
In Jonathan Franzen’s How to Be Alone, the author finds his burgeoning success and invitations to all the best parties, “not as an opportunity to introduce myself to the world, but as an opportunity to introduce the world to myself”. The same is true of the worst parties and enduring failure. For years, agonised by loneliness and the
desire to be alone, I told myself when leaving the house for an invite at least one thing will happen that will make
it worthwhile. This one thing has been the cornerstone to all my work.
Informed by the surrealist object, conceptual art and graphic design, I have a strong inclination toward quotidian, industrial, found or obsolete objects and the ephemeral. The often semi-autobiographical works, expressed in various media including sound, video, text, sculpture and lens-based images, exhibited in Germany, USA, Brazil, Columbia and widely across the UK, explore themes of nostalgia, time, memory and the act of observation itself within the small poetry of everyday life.
I find it fascinating how we communicate with one another. The motivations to communicate. The why of it. The dishonesty / honesty. The shame of it. The inherent difficulty and simple joy.
