My interest in materials help me explore and interact with the surrounding environment. Surface, texture, form, movement, space and light are the key interests in my practice. My work boarders between the boundaries of the accident and control, with my fascination of sunlight’s interactions with space. By choosing certain shapes, textures and surfaces I create boundaries to work from, but let play and interactions occur with my work to allow for an exciting outcome. I have a push and pull effect with my work, when I put too much control and emphasis on the outcome, I start to push away and escape to photography and videos which record uncontrolled situations.
I have spent the last year responding to my studio, being a space I could constantly experiment in. The mundane (sun light and the textures/ information) found in the space has been the main focus in my research. It is important to me for the audience to feel activated by the work and with the work responding to its location, the audience are able to engage. Play is an important factor to the making and installing of the work and because of this it allows there to be an energy in the work that it feels in state of flux. The Wax pieces highlight my fascination with perception and time and the importance of the audience engagement with the work. The wax adds a marbled effect which can only be seen with the backing of natural light. The work is then also activated by the natural phenomenon of the sunlights movement, picking up the angled light in the evenings.
The angled sunlight running across my space was the first trigger of intrigue, from this time (transience) started to become a focus. Being time dependent, the audience become aware of their surroundings and brings back the connection of the audience and the work. I am constantly responding to the environment and my work, making conscious decisions on what to subtract, keep and add. There was no fixed outcome for the work; the work forms from the tension between accident and control. From removing the white walls and revealing the breeze block wall, there was a chain reaction that emerged from that moment, which allowed me to think about what materials stay and go.
The tape line running across the floor had to stay; it’s position aligned perfectly to the hanging pull cords. These two mundane pieces of material have formed a relationship and are now a significant factor in the layout of the installation. My collections of work have allowed me to experiment with many layouts and compositions to see which works have the best relationship with each other in an exciting way. Exploiting the use of the situations in the given environment has become a common focus in my work.
