My current work is essentially about the human condition in the current age of technological advancement,climate crisis, economic crisis and hybrid digital existence. The aim of the work is to evoke a sense of displacement in the viewer to convey a feeling of disintegration and disruption of the self. I am interested in going beyond pictorial representation and creating a ‘sensation’ in the viewer via the device of disturbing the perception of the viewer and so evoking in them a feeling of the uncanny.
In the book of essays on painting ‘The Artists Reality’ Mark Rothko refers to the sin of ‘considering appearance as reality’. This interests me and I am playing around with this concept in ‘Thrum’ ‘Whipping Boy’ and other work in this series.
