Born in Liverpool and now living in Ferndown, Dorset uk.Coming to fine art late my past has been coloured by the sight of the heavy industries, docks and chemical plants of north west England and their eventual demise caused through a mixture of politics and globalisation. The work is designed to generate a remembering of our industrial past and portrays its present rapid decline. The models I produce operate as metaphors for absence and loss, the capricious nature of employment and empty promises for a better future. They are signifiers of empty factories devoid of workers and machines
I see my work fitting into a sort of "Blue Peter" aesthetic, a cardboard and plastic fabricated world of a child's imagination with feelings of naivety, fragility and insecurity. Most of the pieces are lightweight constructions made from articles found in everyday life. They are the bits and pieces that we find lying about the workplace, the junk found in the average boys bedroom. Tin cans, cardboard boxes, plastic and cardboard tubes and other materials destined for the waste bin.Most of the machines that inspired my models will not survive long after their decommissioning. Like my cardboard copies their lifetime is limited."Found" pre-used, materials and simple techniques engage with issues concerned with globalisation and make reference to the loss of individual identity in the contemporary global working environment. … Read More