Buffer: into the Breach, 2022

All things/objects have meanings and associations embedded in them and they have material qualities: shininess, colour, mass that amplify those meanings and shape our interactions with them. Involving material qualities and turns of phrase, these works take ordinary things, images, and words into new associations through montage which is an ideal process for social parody. Composed of everyday objects; buffers or polishing pads that usually spin on surface veneers to make them shine, the works might suggest questions of personal power or power relations and the challenges of finding and inspired way to work collectively. Too often we may feel vacated, stripped bare or empty by systems and their processes that result in public prosaicism, cliché, personality veneer and disappearance. The work invites the possibility that we might reward creativity in difference such that they might also comprise part of a socially exceptional community.

Buffer: into the breach, 2022, mixed media assemblage in the shape of a pocket

Softening the Ground (fade out stunt), 2 ways, 2019, mixed media assemblage and pyrography text