Following the end of my BA with the OCA I felt my journey was unfinished, so decided to embark on their MA course. These last two years have opened up new avenues of creativity for me and I now feel I am at the beginning of a new and exciting chapter in my practice.
The main concept for this body of work is the idea that from nothing, something can be created. It is to elevate these banal objects that are either found or re-purposed to show they too have agency and worth. To give the viewer a new perspective and understanding of the overlooked and undervalued and to show that repetition can make us focus as we search for the difference in the familiar. Challenging perceptions with objects from our everyday life and creating new narratives.
This series focuses on mindfulness and sustainability in the exploration of materiality, letting the material speak for itself and be used in a direct and physical way. Making from an initial idea but allowing the material to follow its own direction and to work with it not against it. I consider some of my work to be transient focusing on the process and exploration, this work is ephemeral and gives freedom to explore through the making.
My work is not controversial or provocative but nevertheless it is thought provoking and authentic and because it is based on the everyday items of our lives it is relatable and familiar. It highlights the fact that the ordinary has a place and it too should be given due consideration.
Working from destruction to construction from re-cycled to re-purposed creates a certain irony in that these everyday objects are only brought into significance when titled ‘art’ but are always there to see but living in the infraordinary.
Journey 