Stolen Love Locks Sculpture

My practice as an artist is politically motivated, and I am interested in critiquing power structures within society, religion and capitalism. I’m an artist, I’m not a scientist, philosopher or a historian but I am an artist that allows science, philosophy and history into my work. I use ideas and I play with them to create. I function in a way as an artist who thinks about his life and his activity on a daily basis as being driven by the act to create. My practice is durational and performative. At the moment it's focusing on experimental sculpture and locating it within the current climate; but it also involves film-making, printmaking, found objects and using commodities. A lot of my work is also about events and performance, provocative actions that promote political thinking such as skin removal, fasting and spitting as a mode of artistic production. I understand transgressions as a political stance, one in which conventions and norms can be challenged creatively and I use the idea of transgressions as an impulse to make. I am interested in challenging galleries and their position in society, questioning high and low art and exclusivity and access. I have the work ethic of always having to work manually, being working class and an undiagnosed dyslexic through school. Due to no qualifications, in my early employment years, I was only employed to pick things up and put things down. This has influenced my process as an artist, I am now aware that I’m a labourer in the space of art-making. I find myself asking fundamental questions concerning society, politics, religion, existence, self and being through my work. I question the fragility of life and death, I question suffering, I address the social and political paradigms that govern us. My work deals with themes of loss and preservation and comments on what it's like to be having a human experience in the 21st century. A lot of the art that I make are things that already exist it is about being able to present those things that people might not have noticed.