My practice is a sculptural investigation into the human body, with a focus on ordinary, everyday materials; for example: tights, bubble wrap, pollyfilla, shampoo, bleach and ink. As well as materials such as paint and latex. This is something that has been influenced by the Art Povera movement as well as artists such as Karla Black, Ernesto Neto and Giuseppe Penone.
Although my work is predominantly sculptural; photography, painting and drawing all play key roles in the process of development and understanding of the work.
By incorporating everyday materials into my practice I ask the viewer to re-evaluate and question what they already know and understand about these materials, especially in context with the body. Taking something mundane and turning it into a familiar, yet, equally terrifying form. The manipulation of these materials is central to my practice, although allowing them to behave in a natural and relatively uncontrived way is equally important to me.
I also ask the viewer to begin to reconsider the human body through the presentation of body 'segments' - overly distorted and exaggerated sections of the female body, often combined with phallic imagery to create abstract, ambiguous representations of the body.
I am particularly interested in the torso section of the body and in the fleshy, flubby, fat rolls. There is something fascinating and compelling about these which I am investigating through my practice.
I am interested in creating sensory environments and installations the viewer is forced to engage with; in both a physical and non-physical sense. These environments are often filled with tactile bulbous, fleshy forms that appear to be falling yet are simultaneously contained and held by the tension created with the materials.
