My interdisciplinary art practice is inspired by my immediate surroundings, whether they encompass the sea, land or city. Primarily through a photographic practice, I capture images of specific structures or landmarks that focus the eye and configure the imagination. I consider these focal points to be topophilic, in that they are indicators of particular places that promote human identities and a sense of belonging. Despite the site-specific characteristics of these chosen focal points, they are often generic of their architectural or landscape types. This use of typical structures or places explores a metaphorical or poetic reading of the image. I am often drawn to the industrial edgelands of town or country. These in-between places challenge conventional expectations of what should be chosen, framed and fixed by photography. I see edgelands as places that are free from the constraints of organised space.
I often experiment with the framing of the image by using additional layers of print or paint. Through these layered video works a resonance is created between the stillness of the under-layer of print or paint, and the movement of the over-layer of video. This assemblage of mixed media imagery can be read as a palimpsest of fragmented memories. My photographs and recorded videos are, inevitably, images of the past and ‘are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are’ (Sontag, 3:1977). Nothing much happens in the moving images in my repertoire, there are no defined narratives or critical moments, instead, there is an invitation for the viewer to pause and reflect upon familiar places, often exposed in a very different form of light.