Biography
I came early and late to sculpture. I did a degree in sculpture at Chelsea Art School. My most influential teacher at that time was the artist David Medalla whose work I felt encompassed an anarchic spirit of chaos and joy.
I then went in a different direction. Years later my urge to make sculpture returned, but where to start I found the most difficult. I returned to the last work I made in my early 20's - a dirty carpet squeezed between two metal bars and used that as inspiration.
A major influence for me is how objects are displayed, the sacred, the iconic, the relic, the meaningless and how these objects are invested in human mystery.
I want my sculpture to feel modern and dated at the same time. A mixture of metaphysics and the tangible heritage of objects. The provenance of the materials used. The history of things and what that might mean in the flux of now and then.