Oil on canvas.

My work considers the space and architectural forms found within the contemporary urban city environment. I explore notions relating to certainty and uncertainty that arises through the familiarity of lived-in spaces. My painting transitions from representation to abstraction, reducing familiar forms and spatial elements to simplistic shapes. I am interested in how a living space breeds familiarity and how memory and attachments become stronger through time, becoming relative to one’s own identity. This ‘space’ is not used as a means of literal representation but as the stage and setting for more enigmatic qualities to reside within, such as the feelings and emotions of comfort, contentment, melancholy and uncertainty. Although spaces within my work are purely psychological in nature, I am conscious of contemporary social concerns in relation to security, or lack thereof, in relation to home ownership. The poetic notion that the city may be linked to the human mind is also important in my work; the metropolis, acting as a labyrinth and thus the mind. The unoccupied empty space acts as a junction where the psychological quietness of the mind rests and where reflective thoughts move easily, creating a dichotomy between this emptiness and the more familiar forms. The paintings themselves become traces of memory as time moves forward, forms become obliterated, heightening their sense of uncertainty through abstraction - (Artist's statement).

Registrar's Collection.

Acquired from CIT CCAD 2019 Contemporary Applied Arts & Fine Arts Show (Dismantle).

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