The artworks I lay before the viewer aim to evoke an active response in everyone who has felt within themselves an urge to grow beyond their inheritance.  My objective in creating various identities and roles is to develop as an artist, to find a voice and a definition, to stimulate mental faculties and expression.  By inhabiting and interpolating myself into various roles, I begin new learning processes.

As a young emerging artist there is a concern regarding the validity of asserting myself in this role.  This questioning permeates all aspects of my practice and is reinforced in an impediment that may occur through my use references and devices. In these works I cite Beuys’ concerns with correct interpretation and its obsessiveness.

I use the obvious yet poignant analogy of art-maker as a hunter in which to visualise my concerns.  This work illustrates my attempts to capture this elusive desire. The connection between hunting and photography asserts itself.  The implication of ownership via taxonomy is reinforced with my presentation of the desired object, the rabbit, as artwork.  

Recently I have been provoked to consider paternal-son links and the construction of memory and its fragility. The borders between fiction and non fiction, reproduction and reality, are blurred as an interplay between documentary, accuracy and dramatisation exists. This uncertainty of what exists and what is remembered is an attempt to echo questions regarding memory and our constructions of narratives within.