Like a character in a play we are able to come into an artwork and become part of the overall feeling.
I wish to engage the viewer in an investigation of visual and perceptual experience. Through the use of materials, navigation within the gallery space and our own histories, the works engage with an ability to become more than just the ‘sum of their parts’.

It is not often by choice, but when we view something we immediately become part of it. Through memory, experience and historical evidence that make up each of us as individuals, constituting our own storylines.

“ We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.”

The idea of the caravan resonates an attempt to re – create our living spaces, ‘a home away from home’. I have re – created indicator elements within the works through reconstituting found objects. Through these indicators such as aluminium extrusions, specific surface materials and other fixtures I have objectified the false, denying their ‘almost’ functional qualities. The work sits in ambiguity between art and architecture.

“ In a space we do not recognise, we search for our position.”

The absorption of memory, both within the surfaces and ourselves is apparent through the endeavour to layer, paint – over and re decorate, scratches and wear and tear of surface material. I am not concerned with these ‘imperfections’ as mishaps, but rather as elements of these narratives. The DIY improvisation we encounter whilst camping or holidaying.

“ Stories may be attached to such places making them resonate with history and experience. Although the stories change in the re – telling the place provides an anchor of stability and credibility. The very existence of physical places validates the re – woven histories”