The Domestic Moment: Memorialising the Mundane  

I am treading softly through a park, visiting a rooftop with my father, walking above underground caves and playing with a hula-hoop in one of the city’s gardens… These images form a storehouse of memories, moments of connection with others and the domesticated environments in which we live. I think of these paintings as mnemonic objects of the benign. Starting with snapshots, I aim to reinvest the moment with meaning through the temporal act of painting; mark-making as a simultaneous narration and mapping of both image and memory. Just as the process of remembering is variable, some areas of paint are more defined – such as the rooftops of my street where I grew up – whilst other places and faces are more obscured. Referencing the 17th century salon-style hang, I group together bundles of paintings to emulate a scattered photo album. These arrangements echo the way images can be endlessly linked and re-narrated in the mind and also form a figurative bridge between the digital age and the history of painting domestic subject matter.

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Storehouse of Memories (series #1), 2021  

oil on wood panel  

1070 x 1120 x 80 mm

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Storehouse of Memories (series #2), 2021  

oil on wood panel  

1230 x 1130 x 30 mm

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Spring time gardening (Storehouse of Memories, series #3), 2021  

oil on wood panel  

300 x 300 x 6 mm

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Mnemonics of the mundane (series), 2021  

oil on wood panel  

1080 x 1060 x 13 mm

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Artificial lake, 2021  

oil on wood panel  

900 x 1200 x 80 mm

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The Shrine view at dawn, 2021  

oil on canvas  

1200 x 900 x 80 mm

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The Shrine view at dawn (detail), 2021  

oil on canvas  

1200 x 900 x 80 mm

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Storehouse of Memories series (installation view), 2021  

oil on wood panel  

1230 x 270 x 25 mm

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