About
I make artworks using human-related objects of detritus and handwriting which I find whilst out in the world. My work, which spans sculpture, video and sound and artist books, is about the narrative potential of these lost or discarded items, in relation to unknown person who lost them.
I am a practice-based doctoral researcher at Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University, part of Cable Collective, and a guest curator at Oriel Canfas in Cardiff.
Artist Statement
Situated within the broad and well-established category of found-object art, my work occupies a particular niche.
The objects I use are all found by me in person, by chance, whilst out in the world: non‑art items spotted, retrieved, collected and then restaged in new contexts. Their singularity is central — each is irreplaceable, both lost and found, and marked by the presence of an unknown other.
This unwitting collaborator, the person who once held or discarded the material, introduces a human proximity that shapes the work’s conceptual and emotional charge.
Often using taxonomies and other systems within a post-conceptual framework, where an idea both forms the basis for and drives the artwork, I interrogate how these found materials have the potential to generate narrative, affective and relational possibilities.
Rather than emphasising the object‑ness of found materials, my enquiry focuses on found‑ness: the moment of encounter, the shift in status where this narrative potential begins to accrue. I investigate how this quality might be defined, articulated, activated, and shown forth through the
incongruous,
the poignant
and
the play-
ful.
.
