Freelance visual artist specialising in Photography, Video and performance. My work explores the relationship between the co-operation of the senses and human consciousness; how humans interact with the world and in particular recording my interaction with the world through video, sound, sculpture, and installation and then creating an unusual way of viewing that world. 

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I am attracted to the unseen, unobserved and unnoticed in my environment, wherever that may be, inside or out in nature. When we interact with our environment, we use our senses to navigate not only our outside world but also our inside world. Our perceptions of our outside world can be altered by what is occurring in our inside world; our emotions, learnt behaviors, memories and everything that makes us human.  

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When beginning a project, I get drawn to natural environments, whether it be a local dog walking place, a park, or the beach. I react to that place by gathering photographs, footage and sounds and then weave a narrative based on my experience of that place through manipulation. This is to explore giving the viewer an alternative way of viewing that place by playing with the senses of auditory, haptic visuals and surreal narratives. Another way that I explore the senses is through using appropriate footage, connecting collective imagery to surreal abstract imagery to form another world completely and to leave room for the audience to connect their own meanings and perceptions of the work and for me to learn about myself through creating and reflecting on it.  

Being fascinated by the embodied experience, the senses and the relationship between the author, viewer, and content, I take inspiration from Merleau-Ponty’s notions of perception,  

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'The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.'

- Maurice Merleau-Ponty 

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By exploring the way humans interact with the world around them, I create multi-sensory installations using video and sound, how the video can be used as a medium and how the audience themselves become the medium and process for my discovery.  

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