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Installation view of Drawn Spaces, 2019.
This year I focused on worldbuilding as a means to explore imaginative and compositional possibilities at a range of scales, all acting as miniatures of the world itself. I want to facilitate a practice that flows and is open to new possibilities; is cyclical, in conversation, thinks through objects and images, and considers how the personal and the placement of things are linked.
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Close up of Drawn Spaces, 2019.
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Untitled, 2019. Acrylic and pastel on board. 330 x 275mm
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Installation view of Drawn Spaces, 2019.
My work is an extended drawing practice that investigates relationships between maker, marker, mark and material. I address tensions of being caught up and carried away with images created through processes of mind wandering: worldbuilding strategies within studio generated artefacts that exist as both objects and placemaking devices, so the work and studio seem enmeshed like plants in a garden bed.
Rather than neatly extracting the plant as a discrete object, I also find it beneficial to leave the soil that encases the roots intact. Artefacts transplanted in this new plot form another disposition, where ideas of containment and dispersal are intensified.
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Untitled, 2019. Pastel, oil paint, paint pen on canvas.
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Untitled, 2019. Aluminium Open Sand Cast.
Temporary containers that are not fully enclosed but allow for spillage, where objects slip into loose scenes of interrelation, acknowledge the spaces of the room as a site of contact; a membrane rather than an absence.
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Large Mind Wandering Vessel, 2019. Stoneware.
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Close up of Drawn Spaces, 2019.