Selected Examples of Previous Practice

The majority of my practice to date has been focused on handmade mark making, the processes of causal systems and the effect of unpredictability and chance. I make each work within predetermined parameters, applying controlled and labor intensive techniques as a means of describing a system. Each mark in a work is unique and records a moment in time and physical action but as the system runs its course, it illuminates the moments of chance that always exists when we press a tool against a surface. Control is always partial. Individual marks interact with each other, forming relationships that exceed the initial parameters and unpredictable images emerge. 

  

Selected Causal Drawing Processes

 

'35000 Events Within a Microcosm at Three Points in Time.'

2010

Ink on Paper.

 

 'Itself Within Itself.'

2010

Ink on Paper.

'Blue and White on Brown.(MMXIII)'

2013

Ink on Paper

Embroidery and placement experiments

 

'Intertwined Threads.'

2014

Embroidery

Cotton Thread and Cotton.

 'Component.'

2014

Various Electronic Components on Corrugated Card. 

  

Causal Painting Experiments

'The Beginning and End of a Chaotic Process.'

2014

Acrylic on Canvas

 Untitled (Work in Progress)

2014

Oil on Canvas

Selective viewing figurative drawing

 

'Selective viewing figurative drawing'

2014

Pencil on Paper

 

'A ninety minute, nonlinear observation of a reclining figure and subsequent recollections.'

2014

Pencil on Paper

Surface Experiments

 

'Beginning of the Shape.'

2011

Pin Pricks in Paper.

'Detail of Beginning of the Shape (750 000)'

2010

Pin Pricks in Paper.

'The Beginning of the Shape.(-1)'

2010

Pin Pricks in Card