Memory is often altered with adult experience and the objects and fixations of our childhood can be fetishised, magnified, altered or suppressed. Memory is vulnerable to shifts in knowledge and context, looking at something with an adult’s eye can provoke shifts in perception, emotional, psychological or sexual. I’m interested in the multiple readings provoked in an individual viewer; this is true for both my 3D constructions and my drawings. We all have this emotional ‘baggage’ and people often search for and find their own stories within a trigger object. This is why I concentrate on the familiar and the vulnerable.

Everyone I Ever... (Ink on Paper)

Dead Cloud (Ink on Paper)

My works aren't an expression of trauma.They are expressions of human emotions associated with non specific events which mirror the muddied effect that memory has on insight. You remember the feeling of something more than the event itself often, because it’s the feeling that is the damage. The creatures in my drawings and sculptures are there because I want them all to have that vulnerability we associate with the child. Protagonists and victims all take the form of these childhood signifiers, each one of them is scarred or wounded and usually each one of them is stitched at the mouth.

Kissing Walls (Ink Drawing)