Website statement

This website aims to reflect my ongoing practice. It comprises a selection of work arranged under two categories, Images and Paratext.

'Images' include standalone drawings, paintings, sketchbook images, prints and photographic works.

'Paratext' is a term I use for works clustered around a text. A paratext cluster can manifest in different forms, eg publication, installation, performed artwork etc. Some are still evolving. Claire Bishop refers to such works comprising ‘multiple ontologies’ as ‘works that persist in different forms after the event’ (Bishop, 2012, Artificial Hells, Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship).

An example is 'Drawing the Borderline', the drawing of a line around a high security prison as reflected in photographs, sketchbooks, recordings (audio/avi), published artist pages and a cardboard box of paper till rolls inscribed with ‘remembered fragments of conversation and surface rubbings of the prison’s perimeter’.

Other paratext clusters include documented gallery installations such as 'Borderland', which builds on the itemisation of an archaeological archive that is subsequently reflected through sketchbook notes, reflective text, photographs, soundscape and found objects.