Lives and works in London / Dorset

My practice investigates the notion of paintings operating as self-contained worlds, exposing the process of their making. I emphasis construction, not merely the painting of the painting, through assemblage of textile, and a process of folding, stitching, tearing and building an additional skin, resulting in the works appearing quite bodily.  I intend to leave evident all decision making during construction, deconstruction and reconstruction, exposing the mechanics of painting. I utilise the surface as a site to activate upon; a tableaux, allowing incidents to occur, resulting in the surface becoming a landscape of decisions upon which I navigate. Concealment has been discarded and all activities are revealed. I enable difference and contrast to sit side by side, as if a duality of forces are at play. Oscillating between excess and restraint, hesitancy and assertion, privacy and disclosure, the paint is pressed into canvas, linen, organza and scrim. I explore how much paint is required for the work to become a painting. With an emphasis on the periphery and supporting sides, the painting’s expose weaknesses, salvage and repair as the structure is wrapped and bandaged.

Part air, and partly grounded, the works hang as a suggestion of a painting as I add and remove paint and textile until the painting finds its internal logic, its own truth and resting place.

Nationality
British / New Zealand