Chasing Thoughts
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Chasing Thoughts

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.

I. Memories

The Glove

Watercolour and Graphite /  40.5 x 30.5cm

The Scar

Watercolour, Watercolour Pencil and Graphite /  21 x 29.7 cm

II. Feelings

Anger

Digital Painting /  21 x 29.5 cm

Anxiety 1

Digital Drawing /  52.1 x 29.1 cm

Anxiety 2

Oil, Oil Stick and Graffiti Paint / 100 x 150 cm

Quick

Watercolour and Graphite /  29.7 x 42 cm

Salience

Watercolour and Graphite /  29.7 x 42 cm

Tyranny

Watercolour and Graphite /  29.7 x 42 cm

Quiet Rage

Watercolour and Graphite /  29.7 x 42 cm

Slowing Down

Watercolour and Graphite /  29.7 x 42 cm

Being Small

Watercolour and Graphite /  29.7 x 42 cm

Youth

Watercolour and Graphite /  29.7 x 42 cm

Actionless

Water Soluble Graphite and Gesso /  29.7 x 42 cm

III. Beliefs

Reality

Watercolour, Watercolour Pencil and Gouache /  45.5 x 30.5 cm

Oppressor

Photoshop Typography /  36.1 x 25.6 cm

Unearned Privileges 1

Tapemeasure, Data Printout and School Desk / 60 x 34.5 cm

 

Unearned Privileges 2

Data Printout and Plaster /  21 x 29.7 cm

Unearned Privileges 3

Custom Made Door Sign /  26.2 x 6 cm

The Birth of Venus

Acrylic Resin and Egg Shell / 6 x 8 x 4.4 cm

 

Addiction

Acrylic Resin and Coffee Beans /  4 x 8 x 2 cm

Freedom from Want

Anchovy, Olive, Tomato Spaghetti and Mould in Acrylic Resin / 6 x 8 x 4.4 cm

Bacchus on His Sickbed

Acrylic Resin and Egg Shell / 6.8 x 10 x 1.6cm

The Death of Eden

Acrylic Resin and Rotting Apple Core / 9.8 x 4 x 2 cm

Requiem for the Truth

HB Pencil, Pencil Shavings, Glass Tube with Metal Lid and Acrylic Resin / 23.3 x 3.5 cm

Adam

Water Soluble Graphite Pencil on Pastel Paper, Acrylic Resin and Found Objects / 64 x 33.5cm

The Collapse of the Temple

Acrylic Resin and Hair / 5 x 10 x 6 cm

Jacob Wrestled the Angel

Oil Paint on Cardboard / 55 x 40.3 cm

Self

Digital Painting / 31.2 x 44.2 cm

IV. Presence

 

Self-Portrait

Graphite and Ink on Printer Paper / 29.7 x 42 cm

Notes on Art

Digital Drawing/  21.1 x 130 cm