My work explores questions of scale, repetition and narrative, sometimes through large scale works that resemble the collected
artefacts of lost cultures, sometimes through works in which often familiar images are miniaturised and replicated. In either
case I invite the viewer to complete the narrative that I have left mysterious or unresolved in the work itself. My paradigm is the
retrieved object, one that has been unearthed, or perhaps collected from some far-off place. I work in a variety of media – I make
use of whatever means best suit my intentions. As my work has developed I have increasingly exploited minimal form and repetition
as a way of achieving visual complexity, subverting the notion of personal authorship and making use of ambiguity to engage the
viewer.
One strand of my work is the reinvention of cultural artefacts of the past, and particularly of the Romantic period whose
high seriousness lends itself to ironic dissection. I am also interested in landscape as a cultural construct. This is not so
much to do with nature or topography as with the way that places operate as an archive of human activity and memory.
Besides
my own work I collaborate with fellow artist Dawn Badland as the partnership Ouroboros. Our joint projects allow us to work outside
our respective individual practices, and Ouroboros has developed a creative personality of its own.
