Artist Statement
My work is a product of the culling and subsequent displacement of found images through repetition and exaggeration, and it evolves from the relationship between perception and the way perception is structured in painting. These paintings isolate and recombine traditional elements and tropes of painting - painterly gesture, figural tableaux, the optical space of hard-edges and colour field abstraction, the iconic or graphic sign - and in the process simultaneously flatten and construct fictional and often absurd spaces that house elliptical narratives. Informed by the baroque, history painting, Japanese prints, decoration and the way these things exemplify excess, hyperbole and visual invention, my work manifests the idea of a picture as both a screen for projection and material and social artefact. I am interested in the instability and flux of images through time as they appear and are read in successive contexts, including here the idea of painting, itself, reconstituted in my work from fragments.