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Artist statement
As an artist I am occupied with what it means to be human, and explore this through the body and its relationship to space. I find ideas of home and the domestic a useful contextto explore the human condition. The process of art making is important to me, as it involves taking risks, stepping into the unknown and trusting this process will take you where you need to be. I went to art school to become a painter but found it was through sculpture that I could best convey my ideas. The more ambiguous my work the better as I like to think that working between dichotomies helps to raise questions rather than give answers; for example, as a way to question beliefs about beauty. Art has the ability to hold conversations with people about who we are in the world. It has the ability to make us laugh or cry at ourselves and makes us think about the kind of world we are creating. I think the following quote from artist Paul McCarthy best describes what I am trying to say: “It is my belief that our culture has lost a true perception of existence. It is veiled. We are only tumbling in what we perceive to be reality. For the most part we do not know we are alive” - Paul McCarthy from Art Now book |
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