My practice- which involves sculpture, interventions and performance- physically retraces memories and place in an attempt to address notions of absence and to grasp “the fleeting”.
Thinking of space as a palimpsest in which traces of what has gone before remain (even though they might have been overwritten), enables me to question how we are embedded within our surroundings. I employ processes of [de][re]construction to consider these underlying networks of connection. The cyclical nature of transformation is key to my choice of materials and how I work with them.
In making work I retrace spaces and objects of memories exploring their particular qualities. I am looking for a point of ‘unfolding’ in which both the event and materials can hold an expanded and universal narrative.
My most recent piece Cuckoo draws on my memory of a domestic staircase, suggesting both the material and formal language of modernist architecture. At first glance, the glass elements, within the work, reflect this; closer inspection reveals that these are actually casts of the ‘noses’ of a worn Georgian staircase. This process of transformation reveals layers of histories, troubling the otherwise clean lines and formal spatial segmentation.
Each “nose” is cast from a different lead crystal vessel, the differences of which are subtlety present through differing tones in colour and transparency. As the viewer moves around the sculpture the traces of past footsteps move in and out of focus; at times the glass feels more like an erasure of space as it merges into the surrounding environment.
Upcoming Exhibitions:
2025
Impart, Feltspace, Adelaide. March - April