I am a photographic artist with a practice that is research based and process led. Informed by art history and by my own lived experience, I explore themes of fragility, transience and the universality of our shared human condition.
I combine the allure of beauty with an undercurrent of disquiet, this opposition providing a vehicle to interrogate the contradictory nature of our world. Often minimal in appearance and presenting a study in positive and negative space, my constructed images involve photography in a process of revelation, concealment and absence.
I employ the medium of photography as the final distillation of a creative process that encompasses acts of fabrication, manipulation and disruption. These feed my interest in the relationship between two and three dimensions, explored both through crafting objects that I then re-present on the flat photographic plane, and through physical and digital manipulations throughout the creative process.
I approach photography as an instrument of illusion, to beguile rather than recite. By exploring the potential of the photographic object to conjure new meaning, I invite the viewer to reflect and to question what lies beyond the image.