My work is the care and maintenance of the web of our noticing the paying heed of things overlooked
Using drawing as a tool for quizzical research I set out on a journey in search of wonder and the sublime in
contemporary drawing practice. I explore contemporary notions of wilderness and where it might reside now
that the last bit of the world has been mapped.
When Caspar David Friedrich painted The Polar Sea (1823-24), he inspired a sense of awe and the sublime in
his viewers, yet where does this wonder reside now that we can pull up images of the fabled and elusive North
West Passage on Google maps?
I start with the premise that uncertainty in science could also be described as what we do not know. As mystery.
It is left to our imagination to fill the gaps where technology holds no answers, it blurs the boundaries of fiction
and reality.
My art is concerned with telling stories and exploring issues and objects with the imagination.
By altering and toying with our sense of scale, I question our relationship to our environment. I tease out
meaning and spark humour and joy in the small things of the world.
I take objects that I find all around me and re-present them, re-create and re-imagine them; draw and analyse
them. I give them new meanings and possibilities, creating scenarios and narrative. I observe microcosms and
the macro; investigating ideas through everyday, tangible and human actions and objects. Researching the
poetics of art and science.
