What afford us our identity? What determines how we present ourselves and influences how we interface with the world? These and many other implied questions are examined in this continuing body of work. Through a systematic, reflexive exploration into my own life, I examine the dimensions that shape identity - the Memories, Feelings, Beliefs and Presence that coagulate, shift and bend over time to create our individuality, and that influence our relationship with the different layers of the world around us.
Here, my practice merges research and creative expression as a method of enquiry into lived cultural experience. This approach moves me across a diversity of ideas, mediums and processes, to explore their interplay as I seek the most appropriate memorialisation for themes and individual subjects. I want my work to invite viewers to contemplate - with curiosity and empathy - the complexities of their identities, the influences those have on their relationship with the world around, and how, in turn, the manifold dimensions of those individual identities can and do impact the lives of others.
