The majority of my practice explores the use of multiplicity, texture, pattern, repetition and simple formations in sculptural form. My current body of work revolves around the use of scale, impossibility and instability to investigate the senses, with the idea of exploring and effecting how the viewer feels whilst viewing the work, investigating the seemingly impossible possibilities of the materials used, given that these are limited by gravity, through exploring the physical problems of weight, support and suspension. Sculptures purposefully stacked or positioned as though teetering, giving a sense of unbalance and insecurity, without running the slightest risk of instability.

The AA2A scheme enabled me to fulfill my current ideas as an artist with the use of the machinery, tools and equipment available at the UCA. I usually work with metal but due to Health & Safety the UCA Canterbury no longer has a metal workshop, I was offered Maidstone as an alternative as they have metal facilities, but it just didn’t have the equipment or space in the workshop to meet my needs. I therefore used this opportunity to change my medium and research into the use of wood. I feel that branching out into new materials has opened up more avenues to explore within my practice, and has given me further inspiration to continue to work with impossibility and instability using different materials and techniques.

I enjoyed engaging with other AA2A artists and the technical staff at Maidstone, and putting the final show together was extremely enjoyable and rewarding. It was fantastic to finally get a chance to speak with students about my work and the scheme at Maidstone’s UCA at the private view. I found it quite a solitary experience being a sculptor at a campus whose focus is on print, photography, graphics etc, and feel that I didn’t engage with the students enough throughout the scheme, apart from those studying for their National Diploma and Foundation. I was also quite anxious about how the exhibition would come together at the end of the scheme, being the only sculptor with three printmakers, however the show fell together beautifully and all of our work complemented each others naturally in the exhibition.

'Counterbalance'