Garland Membership Award.
Fugitive memories: I’ve watched you my whole life, now I see you.
‘The fragments re-emphasise subjectivity, due to their apparent incompleteness. Fragmented, the self is able to appear and disappear. Fragmentation mirrors the way we experience the world, through a series of narratives, interruptions, breathings and fractures.’ (J, 2021)
My practice is my research, it is a reciprocal relationship of material storytelling.
My observant nature impulsively gathers and documents, informing diverse mediums and processes. Using layering, accumulation, deduction and chance as methods in making I aim to activate ideas around memory’s paradoxical permanence and liminality.
Thinking through objects, material and studio processes I am able to give space to internal enquiries that may otherwise lay dormant.
Looking to source material that is visually defined, the works emerge as abstracted, fragmented forms. This loss of information serves to highlight personal histories of perpetual loss and uncertainty. Narratives of unsettling ambiguities and lived experience are provoked as images and objects are arranged, fractured and reproduced.
What is present, and then absent?
