ARTIST STATEMENT

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I am interested in the politics of the body. It is a war-field of conflicting perceptions, judgements and justifications. It is trapped in the violent push and pull of inconsistent ideologies. The exposed flesh is a repository for meaning, and a proverbial canvas onto which abstract concepts are imposed. In a society obsessed with a contrived and generic version of perfection, I wish to assess and challenge this archetype and put forward alternatives for consideration.

 

My subjects are aesthetic outsiders represented with the visual language of early religious icons. An uneasy tension is thus created between the subject’s duality of roles as both idol and object of scrutiny. By looking into this open-ended, often confusing, plethora of perception there is great potential for a reconsidered value system to emerge.