Vessel: Occupied Painting

Currently, my work tends to consist mostly of 3 dimensional forms focusing on the ongoing process and movement in materials. I feel greatly inspired to work with and eventually manipulate at-hand, domesticated products such as cling film, string, and plastic refuse bags as I can distort their administered forms (i.e. stretching, burning, melting etc.) in order to recreate and regenerate new structure. I also feel that by manipulating these products I am disintegrating their given purposes as well as breathing new moods and atmospheres into their surroundings. I have also quite recently started to incorporate products which are considered luxuries or used to manipulate human appearances (e.g. hair gel, cosmetics, hair dye, fabric conditioner, various bath luxuries etc.) as these are also unified, mass produced products but tend to hold a significance which differs greatly to the more "˜conventional', "˜utilization based' products such as cling film, string and plastic refuse bags. I find the constant flux in my materials fascinating as I have found that they seem to almost always react differently depending on the surrounds they occupy. As manipulation and distortion are major factors in my pieces I feel encouraged to physically intervene with the process of my works once installed, giving them a live interaction with their surroundings and occurrences. NB: All works are POA (unless otherwise stated), please contact directly for further info including 'live' works.