The kind of practice that I have is an experimental arts practice. Central to this kind of practice is an exploration of the stuff of reality itself, as it would provide the materials and methods through which to make work. 

When considering this kind of practice, essentially it is a collision between the artist and reality itself, with the explosion of that collision being creativity and its residue the art. The art produced with this method is at its best exhilarating in its ability to express ‘immediacy’ or ‘being in the world’, but like any method of making art it’s ability to do this rests in the abilities of the artist themselves.  

The art that is created from this kind of practice is part discovery,  part attempt to understand and part description of what is found. What the art ‘is’ is a manifestation of this experience as it would express an unmediated or unfiltered connection with a subject as it would be part of the world. 

Explaining this kind of practice in more precise terms it can be labelled as experiential ontology. However, unlike ontology in philosophy, exploration of it in the visual arts is not an attempt to describe or define ‘reality’ and ‘being’ but just to capture an experience of them. 

When explaining my practice in this way,  however, there’re a couple of important differences that I have to outline.  the first and most important is that I explore a collision with a social reality as opposed to a universal one and so explore a collision with a reality that we construct for ourselves. The central difference between these two realities is that to understand a social reality we must appreciate the way that it is generated via feedback with ourselves. 

Within this framework, in my paintings I explore a collision with a social reality as it would be a description of the world we live as this reality would be expressed as a visualised reality in the myriad images that we create and exist now digitally. In my sculptures however, I explore a different aspect of a social reality as it would instead be the urban habitat we have made for ourselves. Whilst these focus’ are different, the works that I make are just product of ‘aiming’ my practice at different aspects of a social reality.  

Explaining my work thus relates to explaining how it fits within an understanding of an experimental arts practice and thus the way that I ‘crashed’ into a social reality.  

Accompanying each of the galleries on this website, are a set of short explanations of how the works in them relate to my practice. Probably the best way to look at my works as they would relate to my practice is to read these ‘blurbs’ and look at these galleries in order.