Tangle IV Artwork

My practice employs iterative actions such as slicing, extruding and accumulation of marks to create abstract animated films and two dimensional works in silicone and wax. Having studied and worked in stop motion animation and painting, I draw on both filmic and painterly techniques. More specifically, I often adapt methods and materials associated with casting and puppet-making. While the works are two dimensional at first glance, the translucent materials and sculptural methods of production reveal a depth, so that they are almost two dimensional sculptures rather than paintings. The translucent materials and the often cellular, venous and bacterial forms harken to the interior of the body. The animated works also centre around a bodily cycle of growth and decay. There is a conversation between the movement of the animation and the apparent mutability of the static works which suggest a frozen moment within an ongoing process of change. ​My work draws on the work of artists such as Len Lye, Helen Chadwick and Daniel Crooks, as well as the repetitive marks of the central desert Australian Indigenous artists, where I spent time in 2017.