I make abstract painting and sculpture hybrids from an ever-evolving, experimental methodology driven by curiosity and mischief. At the core of my work is a love of drawing, process and the enigmatic beauty of non-verbal language.

I use art as a stimulus to open otherwise dormant possibilities through cognitive and physical processes; my visual language being defined through a practice involving perpetual creation, deconstruction, and reconstruction. I call this ‘system and play’, allowing a system to naturally occur, nurturing and developing it, until curiosity crashes it, causing mutation and the unknown. I am most excited when I create something that I don’t fully understand but has a presence of it’s own.

Many of my recent works are expandable, collapsible and interchangeable; collecting and proudly showing off traces of aging, fold marks, drill holes, scratched surfaces and crumbling edges. Jesmonite is a major material in these pieces, combined with ribbon paintings (a plastic material I make). I find the relationship between the jesmonite and ribbon paintings very exciting for the contrast in weights, behavior with light and physical endurance as I put them through their paces. I use a variety of DIY fixings for both their mass-produced, machine references (contrasting with my idiosyncratic and human sensibility) and for their strength and flexibility allowing me to re-configure elements; I also admit to taking a perverse enjoyment at unscrewing art, stacking it up and returning it to material.

I am interested in the possibilities of colour in sculpture, sometimes using a material’s natural colour, while at other times happily subverting this by covering the material with paint. I have a long held interest in exploring abstract form and methods of ‘making shapes’. In my 2D paintings, forms often became abstracted by over-laying marks; scraping, splicing and smudging new shapes into being. It is this violence of action that is carried through into my current 3D work; layers of creation and destruction build up forms, realised through chance as much as intention.