My overall practice is driven by my fascination with the illusory qualities inherent in cinema and early animation. Imagining myself as a cinema pioneer I explore the interplay between the moving and the still, creating works that sit between the pre-cinematic and the digital.
By discovering low-fi ways to add movement to single images and commonplace objects/materials, my intent is to ignite an element of wonder at the illusion of cinema, giving the everyday enough of a twist to allow the imagination to run free.
We live in a society where the material is being replaced by the immaterial. This has drawn me to use tangible everyday materials in my work that I juxtapose with the relative immateriality of video. Behind the scenes of my videos there are various hand-crafted mechanisms that drive them that are hand-operated/cranked.
In recent years I have made kinetic works for audience interaction that have been shown internationally including Turner Contemporary, Margate, U.K, 1shanthiroad, Bangalore, India and Basement 6, Shanghai, China.
Flying Work 1, Bamboo, Cotton & print on paper, Hand propelled, 45cm x 11.5cm x 5.5cm, 2014
Pinjekan 1, Supported using public funding by Arts Council England,
Wood, cotton, steel & Japanese Shoji paper
Powered by the momentum of the viewer walking
80cm x 39.5cm x 13cm
2015
Pinjekan Prototype, wood, cotton, steel & Japanese Shoji paper
Powered by the momentum of the viewer walking
89cm x 39.5cm x 13cm
Shanghai, 2015
Pinjekan
Wood, cotton, steel & Japanese Shoji paper
Powered by the momentum of the viewer walking
110cm x 39.5cm x 13cm
2019