Artist Statement
My work is process led: relationships with individual women trigger my investigations and I focus on the nature and dynamic of the exchange during the work in the studio. In the past, this process led to a series of drawings; in the recent project Dialogue with L.B.A. it has taken the form of a book.
Dialogue with L.B.A. began with a questioning of my own practice as an artist and the role of each subject I draw in shaping that practice. The project has raised wider questions about the role of others in an individual's life. I am interested in individual's consciousness and perception of the world and their place in it; whether we are shaping it or we are subject to and shaped by others' influences.
The material I gathered through the process of interacting with my three subjects has allowed me to take specific elements and continue to work through them with the audience. I use different media depending on which part of the work I choose to investigate further. It can take a form of an installation or a sound piece. At times I use a performative aspect of an artist being present and acting as a medium.
The process is unpredictable and moves the emphasis from the achievement of artwork acting as a perfect product to being watchful of the process that shapes it. The exchange with the subject continues even if the initial inquiry has taken on a from, for instance a drawing or a book. It may be transformed over a period of time or it may be a hidden undercurrent that only re-emerges at a point of intense interaction.