I am a visual artist,
predominantly working through a medium of photography, in particular using alternative processes and techniques. These can include traditional black and white processing, anthotypes, cyanotypes, pinhole and mixed media. Experimentation is key to the creation of my projects. My prints are hand-crafted and so each one is unique.
I find organizing things into groups satisfying. Photography provides me with a platform to identify the bonds between accumulated items. I love to analyse how each detail is changed depending on its variants, as they are curated together. Previous projects have been inspired by relationships with living beings, their collections and what they do with them.
Much of my work is based on my own collecting patterns. I make my work primarily for myself, for my own curiosity and for my own therapy. It is an expression of how I want others to see what I see.
I hope that the viewing of my work triggers an emotional response of curiosity for others and for them to question the purpose in the piece.
My most recent Project ‘Washed Up and Washed Away’ involves the collection of beach detritus, the object being printed using digital transparencies and the cyanotype process and then the remaining chemicals being washed away by the sea, a symbol of washing away the collected detritus back to the sea.
