My work endeavours to embrace the fragility and entropic activities of memory relative to a more scientific way of thinking and recollecting. I create works that are both impactful to myself and also hopefully to others through the use of chance and happenstance in my processes. Utilising different mediums – from oils to ink and predominantly using different kinds of PVA as a support – the materials that I use are often left to their own accord. Depending on their environment and/or date created, the outcomes vary greatly and are usually not dictated by myself. My work is a response to daily activities, loosely based on the body through quick and spontaneous gestural brush-work and leaving a lot of the outcome to happenstance. These works are purposefully messy, allowing ink, oils or acrylic to be left somewhere on a working table and be exposed to different environments, for example outside on a rainy night. This will lead to outcomes that I am not able to fully control. Undoubtedly traces of my original intention are still active and evident in the works, but through the use of different environments and chance encounters I hope to distance from something that is incredibly personal to me and turn it into something that is more relatable to complete strangers.

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Artifact 4, 2021  

PVA, acrylic, ink  

70 x 175 mm

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Artifact 4, 2021  

PVA, acrylic, ink  

70 x 175 mm

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Artifact 4, 2021  

PVA, acrylic, ink

70 x 175 mm

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Artifact Winter, 2021  

PVA, acrylic, ink, oils  

175 x 70 mm