I am a multidisciplinary visual artist, whose practice begins in the retrieval of found materials scavenged from sites of waste. These objects form the foundation of my practice - they are repurposed as surfaces, and their shape and texture informs the paintings that are made on them. This paint depicts a speculative world populated by spaces of transition that are at once ubiquitous yet un-placeable. There are no traditional figures in this world; they have been subsumed by the environment they once occupied. These spaces can take the form of closed interiors or open landscapes, but the lack of a human subject is constant. The paintings are made to envelop the viewer, drawing their eye down long corridors or winding paths, while the obstructions and perforations on the material draws the eye back to the physical world, to the viewer’s direct surroundings, and to the object’s history.My work probes and presses our pre-conceived notions surrounding space, and the inherent biases that exist in our experiences of it. It also challenges conventional material practices within contemporary art, as the paintings begin to decay the moment they are created.
