Artist Statement

As a storyteller, I embrace the absurd and value the power of impulse over preconception. With the help of humour I explore themes of power, violence, and the farce of authority, and the vitality of life with all its fragility and impermanence. 

I exploit the material properties of a chosen medium. Each new work is given a title, a sort of christening, that I immediately uncouple from any associated meaning, thereby rendering any subsequent attempts at explanation impractical.

As a medium, ceramics has one notable property, that of durability. Each piece has the potential to last a few thousand years by which time any ideas of ownership or provenance are lost to the traction of history.

By reaching into the sock draw of my mind I can only hope that my work subverts social norms and dominant ideologies.