The sensibility of an avaricious magpie, led by an intuitive attraction to objects, materials and ideas. Melded with a more methodical sensibility, to systematically pick things apart, carefully excavate and extract information.
These dual forces of creation and discovery, followed by analysis and disassembly govern my art practice. Resulting in an output that is idiosyncratic and multi-layered.
Approaching artistic research as an active, rather than a passive, receptive process, I consider my research to be developed in the act of making itself, rather than existing separately as a precursor to the production of artwork.
With this in mind, my recent practice has orbited around objects that I feel an instinctive attraction to.
Objects like ‘egg’ and ‘ladder’ have a universal significance, to the degree that their existence transcends their material confines.
These object's simplicity of form, seems to invite the charge of boundless symbolic and folkloric significance.
Whilst mindful of the potency and variation in the associations these objects hold, I am keen to interrogate their materiality and ontology.
Unpeeling the egg, layer by layer, considering the potential applications of its material properties.
Exploring how ladder and egg relate to the human body: how ladder can be understood as a kind of prosthetic, or how the surface qualities of egg can draw resonances of skin and bodily barriers.
Considering these objects as vital bodies that have lives independent to their interactions with humans.
My artistic engagement with these objects is ongoing and exceeds the confines of this site. The corpus of work presented here, particularly the weblink to Magnum Ovum, an evolving research document in the tradition of the Artist’s Book, principally concern my enquiries into EGG.
