Chicken of the Sea Painting

My work focuses on story telling. I develop narrative through various games and strategies, from a system of mark making as a means to fill the space, to the written word as an intervention, through to sound and its relationship to painting. I’m interested in how sound informs the construction of the painting and how sound informs the experience of the painting for the viewer. I approach the construction of audio and painting in the same way, combining different elements or preconceived ideas of narrative in the same space, which then inform and subvert one another. These pieces also explore sampling, the generation of loops and the boundaries between live and digital music. Using preconceived ideas of narrative and various mediums as a stage on which to play out narrative games, my work explores the language of stereotypes, urban myths and the interminable human capacity to believe in anything. Often mixing grand themes or elements with the pitiful, I use self-aggrandizement and self-deprecation as a means to process past experiences and celebrate anxieties. My work focuses on the processes of sublimation and spirituality – imagining these practices with both a sense of farce and also a sincere wonder. My practice is about celebration in place of observance.