My work is centered in drawing through expanded forms. Nature and landscape are recurring themes through which I explore ideas of temporality and ephemerality. Animation seemed like a natural progression from drawing. My drawings and installations implied movement and animation gave me an opportunity to explore what happened when they moved and how this altered the intention of the work. Since then my focus has been at the intersection of stillness and movement alongside silence and sound and the inherent tension between these points.

The main intent for my new animated work that I’m developing with DRIVE is the exploration of the emotional resonance of the landscape and how it can reveal it’s histories and narratives. The landscape becoming a connecting point across time. I’m interested in an abstract sense of histories through encounters within the space; shadows, reflection, sound, light a sense of place.

Rather than large vistas of landscapes mine are often micro-scapes, I’m drawn to marginal edgelands that present small pockets of overlooked wilderness. There is a commonplace and everydayness about these spaces. It is my intent to make prominent the unsettling and darker aspects inherent within the scenes, accentuating the uncomfortable and uneasy that parallel alongside the beautiful and bucolic.

Sound will form an important part, this is an opportunity to explore more closely the correlation between sound and image. I’d like the sound to be more intrinsically linked and inform the imagery, my starting points for sound research are acoustic ecology, field recordings, sonic rhythms and vocal sounds.