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.
Jerwood Bursary recipient, 2020
https://jerwoodarts.org/
a-n Artist Bursary recipient, 2020
https://www.a-n.co.uk/
I am part way through a R&D residency on the Isle of Sheppey developing new work for Whitstable Biennale in June 2021
https://www.whitstablebiennale.com/
The Pineapple Project will be performed and exhibited at Space Studio, Baroda, India in 2021.
Curated by Veeranganakumari Solanki
https://www.delfinafoundation.com/in-residence/veeranganakumari-solanki/