Artists Statement

This work began with a poem. 

A poem that explores the tension between being in control and being out of control. It explores a loss, a darkness, a shedding of a skin. It encapsulates memory, a sense of escape, of burial, of a poison bubbling beneath the surface.

The tension between things changing and things staying the same.

This work began with a poetic narrative and this is expressed through the use of tactile materials, hoping to appeal to the senses. A glamorous edge, hinting at a past life, juxtaposed with a domestic grubbiness.

Although this work is set in the past, containing many historical elements, the human traits and struggles of destruction, desperation and addiction are still relevant today. Many of us can recognise the tensions visible within this work.