BA (Hons) Fine Art
I am a graduating fine artist from Chelsea college of Art and Design. My work is large scale sculpture or installation built in relatationship to the site. The underlying concern of my work is the relationship between the internal and the external. This applies not just to a consideration of physical space, but also ones own self consciousness and that self consciousness as related to an external world. The works are often an addition to a space in order to make it 'strange' in some way or ,as Tadashi Kawamata has previously put it, 'spicing up' everyday movements and inhabitation of space. In other words to alter it or add to it in a way that attracts curiosity or a physical exploration, which draws people out of an internal space into a consideration of the space around them. This is done by slowing them down or adding an unnecessary complication or unexpected details to their movement as well as providing an attractive alternative to be explored. What Lefebvre called the 'desire' to explore spaces could also be what George Simmel refers to as the 'phenomenology of adventure'. In considering the external world around us we take possession of that space , whilst simultaneously acknowledging the effect of the external on ourselves and identifying with the spaces and places in which we live. I am interested in this affirmative action of a person self consciously taking up space. There is a connection within this to an awareness of social responsibility and the possibility to affect the space around us.