Within my art practice I have sought for some kind of grey area in to which art can be constructed and reside. Somewhere that is in-between the clinical, white, starkness of the gallery and the comfortable, cluttered, darkness of the studio where the work is born. This is an ideal that I am trying to reach within my artistic practice, a space or an idea of a space into which a studio born work can be placed to create excitement or curiosity or confusion. To work with and against the space, to interact with the space, to project ideas onto the space and to interfere with the feel of a place and interfere with the visual perspective of that place. I feel that I am more drawn to buildings than to outside spaces, this may be because that nature of a building is like the nature of a frame, and it holds the space in and hold the wider world out. These boundaries are ones I like to test and bend within my studio practice, with my assemblages, collages, photomontage and mixed media paintings I am constantly thinking about the way in which they will be seen and how a certain space will react differently to it than another, this includes considering the space as a flexible frame.  Within the white cube gallery, that has been the neutral setting for art exhibitions for years, resides the emptiness that that neutralness gives. Generally speaking there is a certain kind of intention in going into a gallery, a space that is specifically designed to show off the unique, elevated status of the art objects placed within its walls, it is this that separates the art and the gallery from the rest of the world. My work looks at the relationship between the studio and that gallery space.