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Artist's Statement
My work involves the creation of large-scale mixed media drawings based on observations
of both the natural and built environments.
My studio practice combines experimental techniques with a range of traditonal drawing
media on paper. Incorporating a variety of methods to manipulate my images, I usually
work on several themes concurrently, allowing the visual connections and disparities to
inform separate bodies of work. Cuts, tears and adhered seams are necessary structural
features of my drawings, revealing the production process of the work and adding a
distinctive quality of mark.
The making and unmaking, collaging and reconstructing sections of the compositon gives
the work a three-dimensional quality which references my subject matter. Furthermore,
representional elements of the drawing are disrupted by this process, which flattens and
adds a sense of ambiguity to the images. The contrasting readings of space thus created
and the increasingly large scale of the drawing installations have become central features
of my work.
September 2009
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