Artist's Statement:

Whether from folk tales, religious accounts, film, news, or conversation, our lives are told and our history is passed on through stories. Memory works as an organism that recalls an instant, an event and then restructures it: the story created forms a new unique personal memory. Contemporary reality is marked by the continuous influx of information and imagery through Media. These Modern storytellers shape, structure and distort our reality, yet are trusted as official recorders of history. What they create is a surrogate reality: a reality in which moments in time are experienced for us. The consequence of this may be the loss of the personal story: one’s own experience of an instant or an event. How a sense of genuine experience can be maintained in such an environment is in question. What follows is a sense of uncertainty about the world: from what society is based upon to how we experience time and reality in everyday life.

My art engages with this uncertainty. My work ranges from sculpture to printmaking, but there is a constant attraction to the hologram, to something that creates the illusion of objectivity and visually changes as one’s eye moves around it. Through these processes I convey my interest in the repetitive nature of events and the illusions inherent in life.