Nominated for: Faith & Spirituality Team Wellbeing Prize
My work deals with ideas of memory, loss, the passing of time, authenticity, and individuality.
I use processes where the image is created through the imprint of its object: rubbings, gelatine prints, cyanotypes, photograms and photographs. Such images can only be created in the presence of their subject, and they evoke an ‘absent presence’. They are also imperfectly controllable – they invite happy accidents. The hands-on processes of rubbing and gelatine printing yield interesting and unpredictable tactile, textural and tonal effects, which I value.
My subject matter consists of small everyday objects: family possessions, ephemera, organic material, objects picked up in the street. These are usually presented in the form of series. These may be visual inventories of personal possessions, emphasizing once again the ‘absent presence’ of their subject; physical or metaphorical records of the passing of time, or document the transitional stages of their own making.
