My work is quite process-based, working mainly through found photographic materials, drawing and printmaking. Often my work finds it feet in self-publishing, grounded either with a narrative or, more simply, the rhythmic, collected nature of the book. There’s a strong sense of flattening in my work, of playing with pictorial space. During a brief point in my studies I became really sick of drawing, so I turned to collage as a means to quickly take imagery from the world around me and mash it into the page. That’s the big appeal of printmaking for me; the squishing and the squashing. A lot of my work responds to the museum environment, as well as private curatorial spaces, so I employ these processes, like collage, that mimic the curator’s role of ‘collect and condense’.
