Artist Statement

At its core – my installation practice is as concerned with traditional sculptural questions such as the coherence of materiality and the arrangement of objects in space, as it is with the viewers’ embodied experience as they engage with the art work. I am interested in creating environments that function metaphorically, in discovering new ways of addressing embodiment, and thinking about how the body can have meaningful interactions with technological environments or systems. I use materiality and the physicality of the installation as a metaphor, and create sensory rich environments that allow for meaning to emerge through experience and exploration.

Alongside my Installation practice I also work collaboratively on different projects including curatorial projects, wearable robotics, a gestural game, and my recent Internet of Things inspired distributed sculpture ‘anyWare’. These works draw on expertise from multiple disciplines in an effort to understand and create aesthetic experiences that push the boundaries of interactivity and playfulness, and offer an experience to the viewer that is accessible both intellectually and technologically.

Beyond my studio practice I also curate exhibitions. My curatorial interests lie in showing work that critically engages with technology and its intersection with human experience. I am equally interested in interdisciplinary collaboration as impetus for critical creation, as I am in the aesthetics of interaction between the art object and the participant/viewer. I seek out work that critically and sometimes playfully examines social, political, and personal experiences, in order to explore and unpack important questions about the role technology plays in the quality of our lives. I do not expressly situate technology as oppositional to the body and nature, nor do idealize it. I am more interested in unpacking the grey areas that complicate how we understand our ‘phigital’ physical and digital) experiences.