My work mostly comprises installation, video, performance, photography and sculpture. Using objects, materials and colours that are often subversive and allegorical as part of a code system, I use symbolic items or imbue items with personal symbolism to create a narrative, a pictorial tale. My work plays devils advocate with the preconceived idea of the moral right or wrong, preying on the religious, social, and moral dichotomy of today’s cultural divisions.
Three themes are regularly visited in my practice are the further sciences, the natural world and the role of the institution. The further sciences for their similarity to magic in that we laypeople grasp very little idea of how they clone life and move atoms so in essence is akin to magical practice.
Not only taken with the futuristic, I look at the way information has been collated in the past. I am curious about the role institutions have in our culture, as ideological pillars of contemporary society controlling the portrayal of information. Yet Baconian theory only implies that something is true until it is proved otherwise.
Another theme regularly visited within my practise is the relationship between man and the natural world. Assuming the role of the shaman or druid I try to broker a symbiotic relationship between these two forces. Portraying man as a misdirected soul who is neither inherently good nor bad but paradoxically part of the natural world. The druid and shaman have throughout time been connected to their natural environment and have been a source of myth. This relationship acts as a font of ideas for themes of transformation and alchemy within my practice. My often-ethereal work combines divergent ideas and themes to ask philosophical questions about life now, in retrospect of the past and in anticipation of the future
My fascination with differing cultures and symbolic codes can be accounted to my own mixed racial ethnicity. My family is made up of three distinct cultural groups: the Middle East, the West, and the Far East. This homogeny of cultures bares direct impact on the influences seen within my work. The meanings associated with one object for one society may be the antithesis of another. It raises questions about the evolution of culture. Are we moving towards a unified society or becoming more disparate in our beliefs?
182 THE CIRCLE
QUEEN ELIZABETH STREET
SE1 2JL
London
GREATER LONDON
United Kingdom
Europe
