Info
I originally trained as a sculptor but for the last twelve years and since moving to London my work has become preoccupied with the moving image. Cinematic language allows me to explore and create places by piecing and layering together footage of journeys through spaces, these journeys I lace with feelings of anxiety created by insinuating an ever present threat of disaster.
Through the layers and loops of footage and sound I try to deconstruct the natural order of the narrative and through this process understand better my relationship with the subject. By creating this focus on a place, landmark or idea over a period of time, it grows in significance for me almost taking me over creating a sense of claustrophobia that feeds naturally back into the work.
I often build scale models of spaces which are then photographed and filmed. This process helps me understand the subject. By using multiple formats from Polaroid, Super 8 to broadcast quality HD I feel I am able to create a depth and a distance in my work that moves away from the screen based process and becomes more reminiscent of a memory.
Short videos or sequences of video often sit alongside the actual model sets, in doing this I hope to explore further the sense of disjunction and of in-between-ness. A bland, miniature suburban house doubles up as a small cinema where one of the walls acts as a projection screen and the images projected show something more unsettling at work that references Sci-fi B Movies of the 50’s/60’s.
My work has been shown at the ICA and the Whitechapel Gallery London, Spacex Gallery Exeter, Les Inattendus Lyons, MACVAL Contemporary Art Musuem and Rencontres International Paris, France. I am the co-curator and organiser for the international moving image event ‘Visions in the Nunnery’, The Nunnery Gallery, London and have been in receipt of numerous arts grants and awards both to develop her own practice and to curate and organise exhibitions and events across the UK.
As a freelance artist I work as a specialist arts/media educator, trainer and mentor. In the past I have worked on projects for The British Museum, The TATE Gallery, The Wellcome Trust, The BBC and The Bow Arts Trust.