I work with drawing, digital photography, video and performance in transient space. I explore otherness, liminality and identity. My work is driven by curiosity, loss,  longing, questions of cross-cultural identity, and ideas about the location of "home", dislocation of identity as the legacy of conflict and imperialism, the tension between historiography and the phenomenology of lived experience, an ontology of self.

I explore sites of personal memory and postmemory.  My practice is contingent upon context, producing non-narrative tales poetically, inspired by mythology and the surreal, which remain fluid and open to interpretation. My practice involves repetitious acts performed to camera or exercised as performance. 

I try to capture, via the digital camera, “moments” in which either process or the still point act in counterpoint.

As well as a BA in Fine Art, I hold a BA in English and Russian from the University of Leeds.  In the past my creative exploration encompassed physical theatre, writing and craft.  In the 80’s I toured with Splinter Group Mime and worked for the advocacy of mime theatre in the NorthEast of England.  I have many years experience as a community artist and am a founding member of the Watford Recycling Arts Project.

Artist Ilya Kabakov claims that our society needs artists not to create more information or imagery but to recombine and envision the culture we already have.  My work is about being in the present with an acute consciousness of existing in time, about acknowledging that ordinary actions can be the vessel for the heroic.  Repetition works as a strategy to undermine the sentimental that might be evoked through theatre performance.  Through monotony and sameness, difference is revealed.

My work has affinity with process art in which the end product is not the principal focus: art as a rite, ritual, and performance but not without an inherent motivation, rationale, and intentionality. Process is used as an expression of the anti-heroic; the actions of the performer are mundane, do not preference the body, but have some affinity with Theatre of the Absurd in aiming to create a ritual, mythological vision, creating an atmosphere of poetic imagery and archetypal human situations. 

I hope to evoke a psychological space not a physical one, an aorist spatiality, nomadic space, the non-narrative or open ended narrative, repeated actions as a gesture of being in the moment.