My work is concerned with the body and its environment, the contrasting ephemeral and insistent qualities of these entities and the tensions between them. I try to express the feeling within a particular space or moment and I want to pull the viewer into that.
I primarily work with drawing, book forms and printing processes including etching, relief and screen. However, I also use photography, painting and installation and often consider the impact of an idea expressed through different media.
I am interested in the physical and cognitive aspects of creative processes and consider these in my own practice and collaborations with others. Particularly I focus on the act of perception, how this is influenced by internal and external forces and also how layering of meaning affects our experience. Recently I have been considering this in relation to the concepts of home and belonging.
From Cromer to Hunstanton is a work made to document a walk I took along the coast of Norfolk with my sister. In this work prints, drawings and text are collected into a book form that reflects the coastline.
The Bridges of Budapest was a book I intended to make about the 8 bridges between Buda and Pest one summer. The bridges, all built at different times, were a great subject for a book. However, it was impossible to ignore the lush greenery that flowed over the stone walled gardens and that is what the book finally had to be about. I am wary of writing proposals that might threaten the natural flow of creative research.
