BA Fine Art. Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts. London
MA Photography. London College of Communication, University of the Arts. London
The relationship between Abstraction and Surrealism, and the phenomena of light are central strands to my practice.
It is the bringing together of these strands – abstraction, surrealism, the experience of light and space, through the medium of video that led to my engagement with analogue processes and digital technologies. I am greatly interested in what emerges from the synthesis between organic materials / found objects and light; in the materiality of substances and what arises when these phenomena are filtered through the mediation of digital technology. I am fascinated by, what are considered as ‘flaws’, those defects that are inherent in both organic substances and man made materials. The same fascination is extended to the quirks of digital media such as distortion, and compressions of the focal plane that often render images two dimensional.
These perspectival distortions produce images that resemble mark making. The animated abstract forms created occur in front of the camera lens without any intervention or manipulation by software. No attempt is made to eradicate or to correct through the use of software the flaws in the materials used. Neither is the evidence of human agency disguised as the outcome sought is not that which is seamless and flawless but rather what emerges through the spontaneous fusion of light and materials.
LIGHT: Refraction (3:44:24) stems from a growing interest in the latter days of the psychedelic movement, the period from the mid/late 1960s to early 1970s.
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