About me:
I use drawing as part of an integrated practice that encompasses printmaking, sculpture and installation.
I have always liked the material qualities of drawing. I like the feeling of working on paper. I never felt that comfortable using a brush on canvas. I prefer the direct contact you get with drawing: the hardness of the surface.
I like the way drawing inhabits the whole creative process. It can be used to work through the early stages of an idea or it can be the final outcome.
I appropriate found objects and images that are mass produced, nostalgic and often diagrammatic. The materials I use tend to be ‘low brow’: jigsaw puzzles, gardening manuals, carbon paper, pencils etc. I deconstruct this source material through a variety of processes. I work sequentially and allow connections between seemingly disparate elements to develop over time.
My work attests to some form of human activity, the precise nature of which remains unclear.
