My work is concerned with exploring notions of shifting identities. We are stratified beings, characters through time. Through extensive material research, I examine material memories embedded within objects. Working across drawing, painting, public art, sculpture and recently sound, my research uncovers new links between the materialities of things found in our landscapes, often shifting from the personal to the public, the political to the historical or the permanent to the temporary.
I am interested in interrogating the concept of landscape as mnemonic; an arrangement of natural, physical and emotional elements that help us to remember things – aspects that are often greater than the land itself. Time is elastic within this search and often, I will explore forms, objects and materials rooted in different eras to conflate historical moments with that of the present. For me, a question of origin in not relevant in this exploration, because just like identity and context, the materials we find embedded in our landscapes are ruinous, continually enfolding, collapsing and transforming.
