Laboratory

The drawn works will include an installation of swarming paper wasps. The sculptural works will include a mass of objects that will be painted with enamel paints and left to dry on scaffolding boards covered in blobs of plasticine, supporting the objects on sticks. This structure, which the artist refers to as a 'drying rack', can be viewed as an artwork in it's own right. Paint will drip onto the floor creating an abstract painting. This suggests an ambiguity in where the artwork starts and ends and where the boundary of studio and exhibition space lies when the materials turn into art.

"My installations incorporate numerous small scale, hand made sculptures. These intricate works are painted with enamel paint, giving them a glossy, colourful surface. When these are combined and contrasted en masse, the viewer is presented with a bombardment of visual data. I invite them to seek out the familiar and question the unfamiliar."

"My drawings, like my sculptural works, are visually informed by both high and low brow influences; from 1960's underground comics to Japanese prints, from pastoral landscapes to frenzied psychodelia. I am fascinated in the varying ways in which societies visually reference and memorialise death – in particular the gaudy ceramic wreaths seen in French graveyards. Recent works include collaged wreaths comprising hundreds of individual hand drawn elements, and large, swirling, wall based installations."