Artist statement

Objects present themselves to me as emblems that hold a speculative past and future, and an ever-changing present. Through the manic fusion of household debris and other forms of overlooked discarded materials (including cardboard, recycled and abandoned materials) I conjure up portals to incomprehensible worlds that parallel our own, reflecting the cycles of life and death.

My practice explores the complexities of the conscious world, morphing the cyclical nature of human history, conflicting and ever-changing philosophies around good and evil, and the intermingling of creation and destruction. Drawing from the chaos of the human psyche, I summon dimensions that confront and dissect ‘the spectacle.’ My work operates as a glitch in the theatrical nature of our perceived reality, the deceptively algorithmic idea of self and the wider world, presented through the lens of a nonlinear timeline that brings forth a stream of convoluted tales.

Through the fusion of mystery and magic, I explore the camouflaged nature of the human condition, bringing to life a mythological multiverse shaped by dream logic and fragmented memories, playful yet uncanny. I deconstruct the many versions of self both fabricated and performative, grappling with ‘the circus of the mind’.

I engage in a dialogue between ‘the maker’ and ‘self’ through imagination and the comedic, surrendering as a puppet to my practice, working intuitively, channelling a paradox of characters imprisoned within me: creator and destroyer, hero and villain, emperor and peasant, nurturer and warrior. These themes manifest in a range of forms from sculptural figuration to narrative installations that build a constellation of mythological figures, illusionary systems and societal constructs.