*PYO Artist’s Statement
A Statement:
I am an artist based in the UK. Sometimes I create large kinetic installation, sometimes tiny fragile sculptures. I often work with paper. These days I use porcelain quite a bit. There’s photography, too. Sometimes my work has been somewhat political – but these days I am more interested in transcendence and the universal beyond divisions.
Various brain and body stuff I won’t bore you with means I inhabit somewhat of a parallel world to most. So, I like to explore how we experience reality and the world around us. Although some are quite conceptual, my pieces tend to be experiential, visceral, and emotionally charged; sometimes they resonate with the organic or impart a sense of the uncanny. The best way I can put it is that I’m trying to make you feel thoughts.
I work in a variety of media. The paper interventions, for example, are fragile and ephemeral, and rely on photographic recording. The practice of making them verges on performance because of the very repetitive and lengthy nature of the making (an interesting counterpoint to the often short-lived result) as well as the sometimes absurd difficulty of placing the paper in the environment. They inhabit a hinterland between installation, performance, and photography.
Over the years, coming back to particular materials and forms means I now have what might coalesce as a sculptural vocabulary. Most notably cone shapes – some think of me as ‘the cone lady’. Eggshells recur, as does paper in many forms. More recently, porcelain is a material of choice. At least it’s archival, if not robust (I imagine it’s more robust when not threaded on springs or bouncing rods…)
Alternative Statement: The Wankier Version
Post-Alternative Statement: Come n Hear the Truth, Muthafucka
*PYO: acronym for ‘Pick Your Own’, used especially on UK fruit farms.