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About me
Region:
South West
Artforms
Performance, Live Art, Experimental Theatre, Installation, Interdisciplinary, Site Specific, Intervention/ Action, Socially engaged practice.
Occupation
Practising Artist/Practitioner.
Statement
The first of my key issues that I have a strong interest in is the ideas surround human behaviour and how it can be influenced or controlled by systems either inside the carrying body through the unconscious or the governmental laws of the outside society. In creating my works I always try to approach issues through a number of ways that usually involve audience participation or interactive mediums in a playful yet a campaigning fusion of live performance and sculptural pieces. A lot of these pieces occur outside of the gallery as public interventions and I take great interest in concepts of street theatre and performance.
Another concept that I feel strongly influences my works are the ideas of existentialism or the constructed realities, the possibility of another world of consciousness and the powers of the mind over the brain. These interests come from my love of such classic books and movies as Jules Verne’s ‘The Journey to the Centre of the Earth’ or Pierre Boulle’s ‘Planet of the Apes’, and the work of surrealist and futurist artists such as Dali and Balla. These optimistic forms of imagery inspire me heavily and I love they’re energy while making direct comment on the ideas of social and inner-human systems and changes visually. It is my feeling that in a situation of repression as we are in now, that more artists could find hope and revelation while looking at how artist like Balla demanded for and embraced social change with such enthusiasms.