Artist's Statement

The unknown - obscured areas of life and subjects - this is the theme running though all of my work. I explore the quicksand of culture, the mercurial manifestations, fluidic landscapes of the uncertain.  With a foot in literature and a foot in the arts, my practice rests on a bedrock of theory and experimentation. I seek to reveal just how much a part perspective and interpretation plays in the world in which we live.

A new university graduate taking his first steps into the field of battle that is the arts, my aim is to stay true not to an intention but simply to the impulse to experiment. Materials, method and medium adapting to the best fit of the challenge being tackled.

I want to explore topics such as how new technologies are altering the assumptions we make about the face of the culture we inhabit? What this change means for us and what adaptations will be necessary and what those will resemble? To explore new ways to destabilise the assumptions we make about the boxes we put both ourselves and the art we create into and how to fold genres together to generate new products as a further example of genre instability.

As a child I was upset with a world presented to me as an absolute and strict form. Religion, education and domestic rule was ridged. This was objectionable to my spirit and I sought to break free of the restrictions of absolutes to explore with an open mind. This is the impulse behind my desire to deconstruct, to unpick those truths held aloft as unquestionable and fixed. Even my work of translating one form into another is a manifestation of this desire to corrupt in order to find the location of purity.