Artist's Statement

My work deals with ephemerality and touch. Through tactile transformations of everyday events, I attempt to make sense of our own placement in a large time continuum through marking moments, which range from the ephemeral to natural and historical events.

Subjective experiences of objects create diverse meanings for each viewer; I rework relationships between objects and materials through tactile transformations, bringing together different worlds into one space. In past projects, this has taken form through manufacturing ice – turning the viewer’s breath into visible frost on an object, putting wind into a gallery space and reconstructing vanished geological terraces out of rubber bands.

My studio practice concentrates on process, making relationships between the physical, intimate nature of the working process and notion of immensity; creating a dialogue between unrelated objects and moments. I try to create new associations connecting the paradoxical qualities of the different objects; some are delicate, some of a throw away nature, some permanent and some ephemeral. In doing this, I attempt to slow down the viewer’s experience of the work, suspending the moment of connection in mid-air.

In investigating the detail of an object, moment or event, intricate and intimate research informs each artwork. To highlight this process of distillation, works are often made in situ, responding to the viewer’s presence, changes in temperature, tensions in material and specific historical events.

The relationship between the viewer and the work is aimed to be ‘unexpected’ and ‘unannounced’, leaving the viewer to discover something not only visual but sensory.

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