"Much of my work is informed by the discourse surrounding the relationship between painting, and photographic and digital media.
These paintings are based on a series of photographs, taken of the
television, that captured a momentary disruption in signal and revealed the images on the screen to be little more than fragments of interrupted information, clusters of unidentifiable pixels.
These pixels are reassembled in oil paint, but in such a way that the emerging image is rendered forever out of focus."
"Unfamily is a series of oil paintings, fictional ‘family portraits’ created using a social networking site to contact members who share my (unusual) surname, and requesting a photograph of them. This project takes advantage of the proliferation of disposable imagery found on the 'information superhighway', to exploit the abstract nature of the global online community. It also seeks to undermine traditional notions of portraiture, questioning the need for any real relationship at all, between artist and sitter".
"I am an ongoing collector of old black-and -white family photographs, most of which I have bought on Ebay.
Some of these I have turned into holiday albums, creating histories and sequences that are anything but real. The albums seek to remove the idea of unquestionable truth that is commonly attributed to photographic images. This painting was inspired by one of these photos".
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