Working out of Glasgow, I am a multidisciplinary artist examining the relationship between artefact and artifice, crafting scenes that mix true history and folklore through a postmodernist lens.
Painting on aluminium, I use this flat and clinical surface to grow an epidermis of layered wax and oil paint. The paintings undergo stages of reversal and revival as the layers are worn and eaten away with sandpaper, turpentine, and sometimes chisels. Painting back into them again, this process becomes cyclical. The overlapping of construction and destruction gives the paintings a sense of a life lived, as they embody an old tool of understanding.
My sculptural work continues down this path of speculative world-building, as the prop-like design and nature of these sculptures blur the line between what is physically true and what is false/simulated. The artifice pretends to be an artefact until it is accepted by others as a real object of meaning itself. I ask, when does the object metamorphose, and why?
Through enactment, I push out all prior understanding and allow myself to play out scenarios from deep within my thoughts, like unavoidable daydreams. A character isn't portrayed, but a picking of my own observations and anxieties is forefronted when researching and making.