About
My work is engaged in an ever changing pursuit to truly capture a moment.
A moment doesn’t simply exist in time, a moment can be found through transient yet tangible forms, in that it is something we can hold within us as a memory, in the shadow of a tree, the eye contact with a stranger or the maturing of an apple.
In the western world our lives are dictated by the mechanical form & structure of the clock, pushing & driving us on to the next hour or second, never allowing a second thought to the present moment.
Photography has won over painting in my practise, in that a photo uses purely the light in the room, in a particular instance to create & sculpt an image. This for me is the closest & most honest way of capturing & documenting a singular moment.
It isn’t that I feel painting is unable to capture someone’s perception of a moment, just that it is inevitably restricted to only one person’s perception of it, the artist’s.
The most beautiful aspect of photography for me, is the simple idea that we are able to draw with the light around us, the light we are also directly experiencing.
I have explored this fascination of light & how it can depict a moment or the passing of time. I use natural mediums to do this, such as the sun casting light through a window, a candle burning out or the sky’s transformation in colour from day to night.
I encapsulate the thoughts & perspectives of people on a global scale in to my work through the use of instruction & participation. My work investigates people & the way in which we live & experience our lives through time, without these various participants and their individual perspectives & responses, my work would crumble.
Time comes in many different rhythms, speeds, shapes & forms; it all depends on the perspective or context it is in. Using mediums such as photography, film, performance, written & installation works, I explore how or what it is to experience a singular moment or how we experience time, be it shared or individually.
In placing a sense of importance on singular moments, I wish to place a fresh, slower perspective, allowing people to absorb the moment. For instance in ‘People Lying Down’ the audience is asked to physically stop & lie down in the gallery setting & in ‘A Moment in Time’, I instructed 150 people in various corners of the world to document moments & take specific photos in sync throughout the course of a singular day in 2013.
Group Exhibitions
2015 Fresh Batch. Old Truman Brewery, London (Upcoming)
2015 People Lying Down. A performance. Walcot Chapel, Bath.
2013 Summer Time. Dedspace, Sydney College of the Arts, Summer.
2013 An International Selection. Dedspace, Sydney College of the Arts, Winter.
2011 Bath School of Art & Design.
2010 The Final Show. Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Blackburn.
2009 The Assembly exhibit, Manchester.
Solo Exhibitions
2015 Drawing With Light. A Performance. Walcot Chapel, Bath.
2012 Just After Bathing. Forsyth’s Gallery, Lytham.
Other Experience
March 2015 Treveddon Farm Residency – Cornwall.
February 2014 Carriageworks - Newtown, Sydney.
Gallery assistant and invigilator.
