I am a British and European artist living and working in London. I work with space, time and memory. I investigate how environments influence emotional states and how epigenetic inheritance manifests itself. Inspired by my tutor at art college, concept artist Stanley Brouwn, I started investigating my movements in urban environments. Since then my work has had strong links to space, architecture and the built environment. In order to define ‘home’ and ‘belonging’ and 'identity' I work with images that trigger both familiarity and alienation - past homes, abandoned homes, traces of human living, transformed environments. I aim to create images that have a level of ambiguity and encourage dialogues between visible and invisible elements. Shapes emerge that offer a range of possible associations and interpretations. These could be of both personal and collective nature. Having used drawing, painting and mixed media in the past I am now concentating on photography as my main artistic medium. Several of my recent projects are linked to a deserted disaster zone in Sicily. In 2023 I was selected for the Hong Kong workshop ‘Exploring Processes of Photobook Making with Yumi Goto’. I developed the prototype of for my photobook 'Seismic Shift', which I finalised back in London. The book is based on the aftermath of the powerful earthquake that happened in Sicily in 1968. It is an attempt to make emotional sense of disasters, when powerful forces suddenly take away everything that is familiar and change the world to something inexplicable and undefinable. |
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SELECTED SHOWS AND RESIDENCIES 2024 Sight Unseen (Group Show) The Glasgow Gallery of Photography 2023 Hong Kong International Photo Festival - workshop and group exhibition 'Exploring Processes of Photobook Making with Yumi Goto' 2020 ING Discerning Eye | London (online due to covid) |