Artist Profile

 The intentions of my work is always to shock and entice the viewer. Throughout the last two years these goals have became a lot more prominent in my work where I have the viewer question the meaning and use their own emotions to develop an understanding of my artwork. Although the viewer plays a large part in the meaning of my artwork I feel I have gained more confidence in expressing my own feelings and ideas in my work. In previous artworks I have relied on realism and likeness to illustrate my feelings whereas now I feel I have developed a stronger language In art, where I can use marks and colours to show my emotions. 

In past works I have used sculpture and structure in places I felt needed it, site specific. Art with a purpose to the everyday person, a subject I was and still am very passionate about. I care about how other people perceive and use my art, whether it is used as a safety aid like my mirror box in a run down subway or as a tool to explore their emotions and inner feelings like my current abstract paintings, I am always trying to effect the viewer with my art. 

In terms of inspiration I have always looked up to artists the shocked me like Antony Gormley, there is not clear or obvious similarity with our works but even as a child I was always blown away with his art, My Dad was cast by him for the ‘Domain Field’ exhibition at the Baltic and throughout my childhood Gormley has always been spoken so highly of as an artist it was always inevitable he would be one of my biggest inspirations. His work to me is so shocking and outrageous, and I would love to make work that gave the same effect to my audience. 

My current practice is very abstract, it allows me to be myself and give everything to every painting I do, this is something I always craved in the past but I think I was stuck in the mindset of realism and making everything look perfect. My last painting really illustrates my need to be free and my need to express. I completed a painting in silence with only black, white and a mixed ‘blood’ red colour to create a sort of horror painting that showed an ugly side of my inner feelings. This to me was very unorthodox as I would never usually allow the ugly emotions out. However translated into a painting was very satisfying and raw.