About Me
I work across site and studio exploring ideas of place, person and experience.
My drawing practice is grounded in the personal and informed by the rich legacy of artists expressions of mapping and landscape as a way of exploring the way person, place and experience are intricately yet fluidly intertwined.
The language and philosophy of sound has been a useful way for me to think about, interpret, understand and navigate my life. Because sound is significant to me, I initially employ the critical practice of listening on-site, thus grounding myself in sound as received by my feeling and thinking body, an embodied experience. When listening I make a visual recording of the sound heard, a blind continuous line drawing (a score) on a long rice paper scroll in black ink. This usually happens over a number of iterations within a specified time frame.
Back in the studio the sound score made on-site lends itself to the subsequent drawings. The black and white motifs revealed in the immediacy of the score drawing inform the slower, considered, colourful and textural studio based drawings. The drawing processes used include copying, revealing, concealing, interpreting, noticing, imagining, dreaming, remembering, adapting, abandoning, repeating, highlighting, obscuring and borrowing.
These reflections of my own intertwining of person, place and experience aim to render an alternative portrait of a landscape or map of place through a form of paying attention that both fixes and makes fluid. The drawings are manifestations of knowing - and not knowing - each intending to evoke a sense of something perpetually solidifying and dissolving.
