Artist’s Statement

In the cockpit of my VW Polo sanctuary, cloudscapes role by on my physical and metaphysical journey. I look heavenwards for glory clouds into which to escape, capturing their ephemeral promise of freedom against the banality of the everyday.  I trawl the aisles of retail park DIY stores for suitable parts to cobble together a home-made numinous that is at once familiar and unstable, artificial, and seductive.

This body of work explores the Urban Sublime, and our contemporary struggle to be both rationally efficient and spiritually free, offering wilful daydreaming as a tantalizing escape from patriarchal constraint and order. Taking influence from the painted ceilings in Renaissance domes, where clouds act as a half-way point between Heaven and Earth, I seek to create my own Nirvana.

I am interested in the dialogue between objects, images, media, and materials, and how through moments of interruption and interjection, potential meanings may slip into other, awkward, queer spaces.

“Hovering between the sky and the earth, on the very border of chaos and order, ephemeral in nature, difficult, if not impossible to classify, clouds are metaphors of the unstructured, endlessly moving and shifting and as such they ask for a different point of view.”  Guldin, Rainer, (Anything, in a way, is a cloud, 2012).