Untitled - Plymouth Dirt

Most recently I have been based in Plymouth working as an Invigilator-Explainer for the Hayward Gallery Touring 'British Art Show 7: In the days of the comet'.

In September 2011, I completed an MA in Fine Art at the University of Plymouth. My practice adopts a multi-disciplinary approach with a varied interest in artists, writers and theories. I am drawn to urban environments and non-places, using chance encounters to find sites to work with. I photograph and interact with banal settings and deserted social spaces around the city of Plymouth. I have been exploring ideas of haptic interactions with the city, introducing the viewer to its seemingly unseen elements through projected photographs, photo-etch, book work and laser-etch as a basis for my final MA Project.

Plymouth is a city attempting to establish a new identity, however constant regeneration programmes over-look the more deprived areas in favour of the commercial sectors. Our everyday routines are dominated by images and advertisements interrupting our progression through urban spaces. I hope that through my work I can draw attention to details we would perhaps pass by as we often become immune to places familiar to us. Without any information of one’s position, we could be anywhere, and as a result these become scenes that we can naturally relate to.