Masking tape, paper, and other bits and pieces: material exploration and jumping between tasks.
Over the last year, my practice has focused on investigating and recontextualising a variety of materials – paper, masking tape, nails, canvas off-cuts, found lolly wrappers, and other art studio detritus – to create a mixture of curated and accidental arrangements.
I have been interested in engaging with materials and working intuitively as I jump from one material to another, through active states of creative play. I pursue the material and follow a path of responsive making until I get stuck. I jump to another material, a form of active procrastination, and start working on another idea, generating solutions for the initial artwork, almost like a rhizome.
Employing repetitive processes to the materials like, cutting, tearing, knotting, weaving, photographing, photocopying, collecting and reducing. These processes are applied then reapplied resulting in the works becoming self-referential and intertwined.
