In my opinion art is a very personal form of visual poetry where we can observe, explore and express our own candid views of subjective experience.
I am influenced by what I see in the real world and the media but as circumstances encroach upon my values I respond subjectively through my work. I become consumed by ideas which are mostly based around people portrayed as units existing in an unsympathetic, controlling system. Through sculpture I endeavour to express a more personal and caring view of the world.
As I work I begin to relocate myself to a new conceptual viewpoint inherent in each piece. As each sculpture is eventually completed, exhibited and viewed by others it becomes the essence of myself looking out into the eyes of strangers and inviting them to share my experience.
Like many others I am concerned with the fate of the natural world. During my lifetime I have witnessed an ever increasing move towards the control and conformity of the environment. We are programmed towards a notion of progress and prosperity and while developers and politicians try to convince us of their noble intentions they fail to disclose the real price of insensitivity.
The current pandemic has provided us with a pause for reflection, during which some of us have taken the opportunity to reconsider the mistakes that we as a society are making. We need to find the right balance between conformity and a freedom to grow in an uncontrolled way. In my work I try to express this balance.