My work is characterised by an investigation into the visual rupture or aberration. Utilising collage, photography, video and performance, I am interested in the idea that image rupture can enable an exploration of the discrepancies that exist in any image we see or perceive.
My performance practice, which features here, explores a temporal engagement with the charged atmosphere of urban fringe landscapes and the body in relation to industrial architecture. Figures irresolutely traverse, moving in and out of an ordered architectural frame or signal and gesture with reflective objects. At times, the body exists in strange suspension, a moment of rupture to the surrounding landscape. Although stark and seemingly unremarkable, the half-built office blocks, truck stop cafes and vacant weed-filled lots that form the outskirts of urban development are yet charged with a sense of the otherworldly. The actions performed attempt to connect with the presence of an energy that I find in certain locations, something that is felt but not seen; a landscape that is familiar yet distant. I try to filter the occurrence of strange tensions and psychological resonances experienced in these sites through the mediums of video and photography.
The nature of video recording is precise enough to show things as they are, yet also enables a way of using reality to describe what is possibly unreal. The moving image, in particular, has allowed a compelling and unquiet impression of the places performed in. I have most recently been developing a new series of video works, one of which I have included an extract of here. It has a companion piece utilising mirrors that occurs in the same location; the two videos are designed to be displayed together.
Double Signal, performance documentation, digital photograph, 2016
Gold Form Series, performance documentation, digital photograph, 2016
Fog Signal, performance documentation, digital photograph, 2015
Gold Form Series, performance documentation, digital photograph, 2016
Photography by Alan McGregor
Gold Form, digital video with sound, 8 min 17 sec (extract), 2016
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