How do you describe your own art practice?
I work across multiple disciplines of sound, performance, sculpture, moving image and installation. Im interested in technology, and use it as a kind of material in my practise. I’ve been working with machines, making interventions on them and incorporating other objects to make them work in different ways, to pursue different ideas. Maybe taking a component out of the machine to focus on its material possibilities, and forming something more personal. Usually, work manifests as small systems that operate under their own sense of logic.
Speactra IIV
Fluorescent lights, fans, timber, acrylic paint, and steel cable, 2017
Photo: Carl Warner
Which question or theme is central in your work?
I’m particularly interested in the tools we use and their effects they have on on us in return. Im interested in people who make their own tools and the new worlds that be can created with them. The freedom, agency and self governance of that.
Wave Opus III
Power coated aluminium, timber, acrylic paint, ropes, motors, programming equipment,2017
Photo: Carl Warner
What was your first experience with art?
I cant quite remember but I guess it was on TV rather than at a gallery.
wrong notes
Horn speakers, tripods, microphone stands, 12v motors, interval timers, clock chimes, coat hangers, steel, timber, audio equpiment, 2017
Detail
What is your greatest source of inspiration?
When the question or idea is interesting enough, then that drives the exploration, weather that be an open ended experiment or something more defined. It’s questioning, experimentation and play that informs the process.
Ambient Painting
(2 Large ) Colour filter glass, sliver and Araldite on canvas, 2021
Photo: Carl Warner
What do you need in order to create your work?
I’m happy to work with what is possible… An idea can be realised in different ways depending on resources. Having a few parameters or constraints I feel is healthy for me, its a good, pragmatic way of shaping the outcomes.
Brocks and Blocks
LCD TV, colour reversing camera, fluorescent lights, Aluminium and mirror, 2016
Photo: Louis Lim
What work or artist has most recently surprised you?
Artist and composer Daniel Jenatsch with his work The Close World.
LCD. Video wall, colour reversing camera, motor, crystel 2013
Photo: Richard Stringer
