Friday was install day at Broomhill Art Hotel. After exploring the grounds I chose a place to install my work that was isolated island of land between a pond, a ditch and group of trees. This created a natural stage that I could then frame my work within.
My friend Lauren Wilson helped me install on the day. It was a busy day fixing the sculpture together and then finally setting the sculpture into cement filled trenches.
My sculptures usually begin with a research expedition to a museum or a landscape and develop through extensive experimentation with materials and processes in my studio. My work investigates landscape and the representation of nature using an abstract visual language. I am interested in using materials to represent something as complex as an ocean or a land mass simply through form or colour or line. I move between drawing, sculpture and printmaking and I consider my work to be a collection of specimens that I have discovered through the process of making. My sculptures and installations are moments when I bring several objects together with the desire to communicate another world.
