about the artwork

My art practice includes sculpture, installation and works on paper. The work tends towards reductive abstraction and is often themed around precise geometries and alignments such as the tilt of Earth’s axis or angles of latitude, which locate the work to a specific place. I am drawn repeatedly to twilight and the turning seasons, using transitions of time and nature to explore themes of stillness, expansive awareness, and the nature of change itself. Installations have an experiential focus aimed towards altering everyday awareness, by inviting a viewer to slow down for instance.

Construction and casting techniques are used alongside everyday materials such as wood, plaster, cardboard. Materials which reflect and absorb light are selected in order to generate optical dialogues between light and darkness. A recent series of wall sculptures were cast using jesmonite resin. These contemplative reliefs based on squares, circles and basic symmetries were intended as formal studies to be developed further.

My art influences span the Neolithic stone alignments of the Scottish Highlands where I grew up, to the urban glass and steel of my current home in Manchester. Themes rooted in Eastern philosophy and phenomenology are interwoven with my continuing exploration of the concepts and reductive idioms of minimal art and geometric abstraction. To me it seems that sculpture is more relevant than ever, providing a touchstone to concrete realities perhaps, amidst the overwhelm and distraction of our fast-paced contemporary world.