Queen of the damed part 1. Photograph

I am primarily interested in sculpture. My work more often than not includes some if not all found materials. Travelling is a huge passion of mine, be it round London, or further a field, it is these trips which provide me with exciting structural ideas and the chance to collect disowned, often overlooked objects. These found objects are later rearranged to construct large structural forms, embellished with mini narratives. Hence the work often involves some activity outside to obtain material or to make-work, and so the sculptures I make become reflective of my lifestyle and environment around me. I enjoy focusing on discarded materials caught between production and decomposition. Finding an aesthetic in these disposed of unloved items, is important to me. The proximity of unexpected items next to one another and the exciting relationships and juxtapositions of these new orders is something integral to my work. I have a child like wonder for the things I find, and freely collect, organise and meticulously sort through my finds till assemblages come together and feel intuitively right. Assemblages of found and manufactured miscellanea develop narrative relations. Parts collected or made are also reused in new works and take on new meanings. The washing up and in of objects and the new connections I make between things that don't necessary have one is something I have a passion for. I find pleasure in decorative embellished bricolage, which I carefully combine so that often-repulsive soiled items, or ones with a deathly aura take on a utopian feel. There is a strong sense of my interest in the boundaries between function and dysfunction. It is more habit and obsession with different materials found on my scavenging missions than overtly strong environmental and recycling views that drives me. Sometimes I have to take on a somewhat performative role to animate my works, carefully tending to them and maintaining their upkeep, a caretaker of sorts. I also enjoy working with elements of the animal and botanical. Work often consists of pelts, leather, bones or animals which I preserve or taxidermy myself. There is an element of the shamanistic and the transgressive, a kind of simultaneous veneration and abjection of the animal. The most recent pieces, and what I intend to develop further, are structures from which limbs and haunches hang creating hanging platforms for the smaller sculpted areas.