My practice explores how the movement of people, materials and ideas are integral to the production of space and place. Through painting and spatial installation, I trace out the dynamic interplay of space itself. The works are shaped by intensive observation of my urban environment in the context of a rapidly changing industrial society and its ongoing processes of destruction and repair. I create large format oil paintings and installations out of found and modified materials to portray banal or insignificant spaces that produce transitional dwellings. These moments of contemplation are an attempt to defamiliarise ordinary perception. I have shifted my thinking about paintings from self-contained, hermetic objects to transitive entities that can transform their surroundings. My work demonstrates that space is not an empty area but something that subsumes and encompasses a complex pattern of interrelations – social, cultural, political – that art has the capacity to transform.

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An interval in the world that helps you see what surrounds it, 2021  

oil, acrylic and salt on canvas, concrete, wire, fabric, metal shelving unit, spray paint, rubber gloves, drop sheet, found objects

dimensions variable

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