Artist of the Week: 14th November 2010
'Predominately, I work around an interest and choose a medium to which I feel best suits the project. However, as of late I have been deeply engaged by hair: its symbolic status and social connotations, and also as a material. My method of working has always been a long and drawn out process, involving the extensive research of what may have once been pure curiosity. I eat, sleep and breathe the subject that I am exploring. I tend to fall in love and obsess with it, until I begin to despise how it has taken over my life. I pursue and work through it, like a bout of depression and then finally, once I have uncovered its mystery and formed a design that I am completely satisfied with, only then am I free to resurface. I feel awake and irreversibly aware. I give it life, I nurture it, I am now free to reject it.
I adore strong contrasting tones within drawings and photographs, perhaps because, for me, the tone alone can suggest to represent an intense emotion, a sort of rawness. Art is how I understand the world; art is the solution to my confusion. I struggle with words and so I allow for creativity within their structure. I am inspired by the sound of poetry and within my latest works I have begun to explore the use of text in collaboration with hair.
Recently, I have discovered a love for Performance Art; I am compelled both as a viewer and as a participant. These movements and actions have reflected the ideas I hold about society, a magnetic presence throughout my work. Using my body as art, I can fully submerse myself, expressing the surge of emotions and thus allowing the energy and ideas to break free into reality.'
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