Artist Statement

I am interested in themes of memory and change and how the relationship between these themes informs and defines our relationship to ourselves and our environment. I am also interested in how exploration of digital mediums affects practice technically and how it can develop and subvert tradition.

 

I use time based techniques in my work, such as digital scanning, short videos and time lapse photography in order to construct moments of fluctuation and instability. These processes can present opportunities to capture, affect and add through which I can construct a visual language that reflects the aforementioned themes. The processes are often looped or repeated, and with each pass undergo change. I enjoy treating these windows as recordings or performances during which predetermined actions and surprising events can take place. I often work at odds to a technology’s primary purpose, and in doing so find results that are both surprising and familiar. By feeding a process back into itself, for example feeding a digital display back through a flatbed scanner, I can highlight and accentuate visual eccentricities and strangeness.

 

Being absorbed in digital process is an important part of my practice, however, traditional process also informs the development and outcome of an image. The sensations of analogue process can work to anchor and focus the ephemeral nature of digital. For example, considering rows of tiny LED lights that form a digital display, at the same time as forcing ink through a silk mesh. This informs a conversation about texture and detail and what is achievable or desirable. Decisions made during digital process are put under scrutiny by traditional technique as I work towards the goal of physical printed works.

 

I am interested in the relationship between analogue and digital. Particularly the point of exchange between the two, and what can be recorded and manipulated in these moments. I am interested in examining this moment in regard to themes of memory and experience, looking for recognisable patterns and parallels that can be magnified, highlighted and distorted. I am interested in the passing of time and in using process and equipment to construct a framework that reflects, orders and correlates this experience.