Hair static, charcoal on paper, 2006

photography/drawing/performance

The Obscene, 2006

I am Head of Foundation at Parsons Paris School of Design

I make photographic documents of my body interacting with spaces and objects, often extending the limits of the spaces that a body occupies, creating precarious extensions - situations that render the body more vulnerable. I am interested in how the object’s anthropomorphism is intensified as a result of my physical intervention, and equally how performing these particular kinds of actions can make the body appear more ‘object’. These are playful acts that attempt to disrupt any simplistic reading of the body as an unthinking, stable ‘thing’. My work is also an investigation into overlooked, peripheral, and unexplored spaces both physically and metaphorically- behind and underneath objects, or above the head. If I think of my work in relation to that of a dancer, I conceive of it as a kind of rough, untrained choreography: I choreograph the body in the same way as I would draw or make an object.

As a result of my MA in Drawing at Wimbledon School of Art and continuing research into the teaching and practice of drawing, I have developed a specific interest in process and, in particular, the physicality and actions involved in making artwork.

Unfixed Dress Version 5, 2008