Experimenting with a synthesis of disciplines (performative,
sculptural and photographic) to explore themes of transience and
the ephemerality of life through the visual representation of a
temporary paper artefact, fabricated to be photographed and
subsequently destroyed. What remains is the photographic trace.
Paper, a two dimensional material used and disposed of everyday
with little thought, yet delicate and vulnerable in nature, becomes
a three dimensional object. Not only visible as the surface upon
which representations appears but also as the substance of a work
itself, finding its own expression. The interventions effected upon
the paper such as folding, piercing and ultimately burning,
implicate notions of creation, transformation and destruction that
are the fundamental conditions of existence.
My practice is informed by the materiality and representation of the landscape and still life objects. Where we encounter shape and form, I see also fragility and transience. Using photography as both medium and illusion, I engage in making and disrupting the boundaries of the traditional image to explore the contingencies of existence. By introducing materials, processes and dimensionality, I create work that plays with object and photographic trace.
BA Photography (1st Class), University of Westminster (2015)
MA Photography (Distinction), London College of Communication (2017)
Awards 2017 Photofusion Prize
2016, 2018 Tokyo International Foto Awards, Honourable Mentions
2016 Moscow International Foto Awards, Honourable Mention
2016 Fine Art Photography Awards, Nominee
2016 La Grande Photo International Photography Awards, Finalist
2016 Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, Photographic Art, Finalist
2015 Travers Smith Art Awards, Finalist
2014, 2016 PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Paris, Honourable Mentions
