Statement
Born in the UK, now living in Canada, I am a visual artist working in the fields of photography, sculpture and more recently with moving image.
With a practice rooted in experimentation, my work explores and celebrates the materiality of analogue processes. From hand-manipulating the photographic print to utilising the photographic potential of homemade film soups, I am interested in and am excited by the intersection of art and science and with the science of photography. Mine is a deliberately lo-fi, slow and labour-intensive approach to photography, embracing the accidents, oddities and optical artefacts that can occur. Often, a project begins life as a response to something I’ve read, a challenge I’ve invented for myself or simply an attempt to satisfy a curiosity. These responses have taken many forms, from pushing the capabilities of the film medium beyond its predictable limits, to designing and making my own cameras with a particular purpose in mind; capturing a specific type of image, time of day or subject matter.
