Artists Statement
I am a cross-discipline artist - the body of my work is ideas, inspiration flows like blood. The materials I use become merely clothes adorning the concepts – illustrating and accentuating. I want my art to be aesthetic but accessible, poetic but readable.
I am an observer in life. A reflective, reflexive, creative I become enveloped in my environment - the illogical visuality of language my psalm I find myself unendingly contorting the reality around me. Seeing the world as a series of systems, my work seeks out the connections and brings my inner reflections to life. It becomes almost a diary of my development - a series of realisations, caught up in a hedonistic obsession with the aesthetic. In the countryside I soaked in natural forms and obsessed over Fibonacci, now moving to the city I am assaulted by the social energies – unable to sustain my bubble I cannot ignore the scars of the world. Questioning the systems which sustained my comfortable ignorance, to much detriment, currents are stirring in me - sparking visions of absurdity. From a childlike perspective I cannot accept the norm's of the money factory, blinker based routine dampened by ego crumbling rhetoric – look inwards and forget.
Through my narcissistic fault-lines materialism draws me to beauty, simple messages of observation are accentuated into ideas and then output as visual stimuli. I love to enact the metaphor of a real life action, highlighting the absurdity of social norms and conditions by creating visual caricatures. I strive for the audience will not just to witness but experience the piece, images permeating the unconscious – in some cases fuelled by stereotypes - provoking reaction, wonder and eventual realisation.
I find myself to be a sponge, floating lightly through the day
Life goes in, art comes out
my mind contorting along the way
From the simple forms in nature
to the tangled city web of dreams
Ideas find a solid form
In my minds eye the world redrawn