My interest is in spaces, what we fill them with and the nature of our relationship to them. I draw spaces and represent them as empty line drawn edges. They are vague sketches of what we know to be familiar and mundane, yet emotionally cling to through recognition of the memories housed within them. I create installations from wire which build the image of a particular space through depicting the objects associated with that space.

I am studying our visual response to these everyday spaces, exploring how we experience and respond to domestic places when they are presented to us as a drawn image. I use 2d and 3d drawing to show representations of homely scenes looking at how our minds respond to minimal line drawings, depicting things that we usually expect to give us warmth and comfort. My 3d drawings seem to have a connection to the reality of the space as they physically exist within it, yet remain drawn, empty and useless in contrast to the ideas we have about the objects they depict. I am interested how these drawings alter a scene from personal to impersonal and what reaction it provokes within us.

I have also tried to push the environment from 3d into 2d working with the actual physical space and looking at the distortion that gives us. The play with the 2d and 3d line works on the illusions of perspective and makes the viewer feel even more physically distant from the image, like looking sideways at something all the time as the viewer’s movement around the piece continually changes and distorts it. It is this cross over of the two that excites me, like making one more aware of a dimension by using another.

One of my most obvious influences has been the work of Rachel Whiteread and the conceptual issues that have come from her particular works Ghost and House and the distortion of the domestic into the uncanny. I am also very interested in the photography of Georges Rousse and his circle installations, and how he plays with the illusion of a 2d image coming from a spatial environment and this one angle perspective to which the work comes together for the viewer.

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