STATEMENT OF WORK

I'm an artist based in London, UK. My works share an aesthetic attitude but float across the disciplinary boundaries of painting, drawing, printmaking and performance. Separate processes and visual languages are compressed into one surface, like multitrack instrumentation into the flow of a song. Coherent yet fluid, my images crystallise elements that are in the process of dispersal and reconfiguration.

Action quickens into image and marks echo into pattern. Gestures travel across bodies of work, becoming motifs. The editing eye crops, dismantles and abstracts whilst a curatorial impulse traces lateral connections across forms, times and senses.

Recent bodies of work include the simultaneous production of small drawings and large paintings. The paintings co-exist as backdrops for improvised live actions, or perhaps they are dancing partners for sensitive duets. These serial and fractured dances are then translated through meticulous drawing. The act of making and presenting (work and self) is addressed, as is mediacy – a deceleration of visual information as it moves through material guises.

My works are a dance between moment and document, abstraction and representation, intuition and self-consciousness. My practice is fed by practical research into art, movement, and music pedagogy as well as a critical engagement in art histories (focusing on embodied or transdisciplinary approaches). Alongside my studio-based practice I occasionally produce writing and sound, often using prosody to emphasise the materiality of language, a place where form and meaning catch.