Artist Statement

"I believe the physicality of data and hand built patterns will let us read and I understand what our bodies and behaviors tell us" - Laurie Frick
I take an interdisciplinary approach to my artwork, incorporating elements of science and history throughout my research. At the core of my practice is the juxtaposition between the digital and the analogue, experimenting through traditional processes such as textile art and film photography, as well as contemporary processes such as 3D printing and animation. Currently my work is centered around the different ways I can represent both the ephemeral and physical nature of data. I do this through exploring this contrast between traditional and contemporary means of art-making.
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Through my art I investigate elements of psychology, in order to introspectively challenge my ideas and ways of thinking. Through sculpture and print I investigate how comfort can be found in the repetitive nature of recording the mundane and representing it as abstract data.
Influenced by the work of data artist Laurie Frick, my work often aims to investigate the human obsession with logging and recording data from everyday life. What happens when this familiar data is abstracted to the point of surreality? Where does data exist in this surrealist form already?
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My investigations are informed in part by the Fluxus art movement,with Surrealist and Dada influences. Recorded through observation and recording of the everyday, tracking each activity throughout a series of days and collecting and counting of the mundane.This work leads me to consider obsession as a form of false refuge, an attempt at controlling the uncontrollable. I myself find comfort in this forensic approach to life and the repetitive nature of data collection.​Collaboration is a large part of my practice and I have a particular interest in curation and installation. This interest was sparked during the planning of an exhibition along with my college year-group in spacecraft studios.