I create sculpture out of instinct, intuition and vision. It is not until the artwork is completed that I have any idea as to what my artistic intention was. The work itself has an open-ended quality allowing the viewer to imbue their own poetry and imagination into it. The end result is often menacing and playful, dramatic and visceral, familiar and unpredictable.
My sculptural practice does however concern itself with nature, the play of imagination and the sensory perception of the body. It is my intention that the viewer’s initial response is experienced through the body. A haptic response, which initially bypasses the intellect, allowing the viewers’ senses and imagination to reveal themselves through the artwork.
In past exhibitions I’ve played with the idea of mutating nature through my sculpture. The gallery space in this context could be seen as a laboratory where experiments on nature have been carried out, albeit poetic ones. I use sculpture to reveal forces of nature, as Merleau Ponty said “making the invisible visible”.
The combination of familiar and unfamiliar subject matter in my work asks the viewer to experience and think in new and divergent ways. This allows the possibility of the unconscious to manifest in my work, giving space for poetic possibilities and the unfurling of the mysterious.
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