Statement

My studio work to date has been primarily involved with the exploration of materials and light. I am currently in the process of building several large scale light boxes onto which transparencies and imagery are to be overlaid. These images will then be embedded in a layer of resin, where further colours,  imagery and materials such as gold and copper dust are added. Multiple layers of resin are applied over time to build up depth whereby the light filtering through these layers, illuminates further images embedded in the surface. My intention is to create something “beautiful” or striking in a visceral sense. The images themselves are primarily concerned with the female form, utilising photography and digital-manipulation to create scenes in which the characters depicted reside within highly abstracted environments, aesthetically I want these images to sit somewhere between the realms of photography and painting.