TRYINGTOPHRASEIT

‘For me your work is about skin’, artist Victoria Bernie told me earlier on this year. I was trying to describe what my work is about, at least in terms of its enquiry. It has taken me those three infinite seconds to realize what she might mean by that. After which the shift over the last six years from drawing to painting to sculpture and then installation seemed to fall into place. Space and time within a metaphysical enquiry bracketing the repercussions of the human act are still at the heart of what my work tries to observe, document and question. However the idea of ‘skin’ as that place where two separate entities meet and inter-relate, provided me with a physical space where these concepts can exist. This idea of ‘skin’ has also cohered the diverse projects that I have undertaken over the last three years. Each project has its own statement and response to either the site or the nature of the call but it seems that this fascination about the interrelationship of two separate entities is the spark and trigger how my personal angle influences subsequent work process.