ARTIST STATEMENT

 

Through my work I like to respond to everyday happenings.

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My work is used as a response to specific events and provocations that have occured throughout my life.

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I pride myself on my ideas over the formal and visual components of my artworks. I believe that you can go beyond skills with great ideas, despite looking unskilful. I am confident in these ideas, going beyond skills to explore different approaches to creating art.

 

Throughout the development of my work, I have had a keen interest in the construction of a philosophy of existence known as existentialism. Inspired by  Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential phenomenology ‘The imagery’, my work sometimes features masks,  as he speaks of the use of masks in performance and art being closely linked to the imagination.

 

My work engages in subjects as diverse as the body as a body of work, the imagination and colour in visual storytelling. My practice combines these themes and ideas into photographs, video, and sculpture that often feature exaggerated props made from papier-mâché, fabric, thread, foam and magazines.

 

The masks and body extensions are humourous in their eccentricity. Having said this, humour plays a major role in my work, as I believe that humour can help engage a viewer. This is why I choose to create videos which have a playful element to them.

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While I use a variety of materials and processes in my work, my methodology is consistent.

Although there may not be material similarities between each piece of work, they are linked by recurring themes and concerns surrounding the body in art, the imagination, my response to happenings and events and extensialism.

 

In my work I like to alter between roles of director and performer. Doing so has allowed me to fully understand myself and my practice in more depth. It is also very fun switching between roles, as I enjoy both directing and performing.