Description

My practice is situated within a personal obsessional world of collections and collecting. I am interested in the close-to-home hobby
arena of reading and listening to music, not only in the atmosphere which these activities engender but also in their signifiers notably
piles and archives – the ubiquitous vinyl collection with all its teenager in the bedroom no longer technologically up to date significance,
the grubby at the corners artists sketchbooks and so on.

I am interested in how these collections relate to ideas around the spectacle, mass culture and the contemporary notion of an excess of information. At the heart of this research is how these images relate to the idea of the self as it is revealed through the ‘stuff ’ we collect and how this is then translated into the visual plane of painting.