As a sculptor I am interested in the convergence of everyday found materials and communication through the construction process. The materials I select for my work are collected from the streets of Brisbane suburbs where they have been discarded from domestic or renovation sites and industrial areas. I am attracted to and utilise materials that contain painterly and worn characteristics as a way of not only translating painting and drawing into real space but evoking a sense of time and place. The work itself is created spontaneously depending on the materials and objects found at the time. The composition is largely developed intuitively.
Incorporated within the use and transformational process of these materials, are various perspectives and motivations that stem from social, cultural, economical, historical and aesthetic values. These aspects coincide with the way various components of memory are used to relate and associate with everyday materials.
Through the investigation of material, construction, placement and space the dichotomies of internal and external, decay and rejuvenation, presence and absence, durability and fragility become evident. These characteristics become a device for response, imagination and memory, which correspond with the projection of one’s own experience onto the work.