When it counts, 2020, acrylic & graphite on canvas, 150 x 200 cm
My work is primarily concerned with intimacy and attachment as it is remembered and reinvented through absence. I use a personal archive of diaries, letters and the debris of old lives to inspire my large abstract paintings and small-scale, text-based works. Central to my practice is the notion of generating a space within which “language” is obscured, articulation is rejected, and a kind of map of bodily gestures that appear to have an addressee can be “read” (in an occasionally epistolary form without all the legibility.) The development of my recent work has been a lesson in sparseness: an attempt to represent the intensity of losing intimacy in the seemingly simple act of drawing the line.
We can change, 2020, graphite & acrylic on canvas, 123 x 195 cm
Maybe you, maybe me, 2020, acrylic, charcoal & graphite on canvas, 123 x 195 cm
The foot of my bed, 2020, acrylic & graphite on canvas, 165 x 122 cm
Letter about weekends, 2020, watercolour pencil, graphite, fine liner and masking tape on paper, 21 x 29.9 cm
Brittled by the day, 2020, etching print, 21 x 29.7 cm, 1/4
When it counts, 2020, acrylic & graphite on canvas, 150 x 200 cm
My work is primarily concerned with intimacy and attachment as it is remembered and reinvented through absence. I use a personal archive of diaries, letters and the debris of old lives to inspire my large abstract paintings and small-scale, text-based works. Central to my practice is the notion of generating a space within which “language” is obscured, articulation is rejected, and a kind of map of bodily gestures that appear to have an addressee can be “read” (in an occasionally epistolary form without all the legibility.) The development of my recent work has been a lesson in sparseness: an attempt to represent the intensity of losing intimacy in the seemingly simple act of drawing the line.
We can change, 2020, graphite & acrylic on canvas, 123 x 195 cm
Maybe you, maybe me, 2020, acrylic, charcoal & graphite on canvas, 123 x 195 cm
The foot of my bed, 2020, acrylic & graphite on canvas, 165 x 122 cm
Letter about weekends, 2020, watercolour pencil, graphite, fine liner and masking tape on paper, 21 x 29.9 cm
Brittled by the day, 2020, etching print, 21 x 29.7 cm, 1/4