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There are two broad themes central to my work.  The first is a method of work that draws on contemporary theories of installation, museum display, and architecture (both real and imagined).  The basic tenet of the concept of installation, that art works always exist in a relationship and dialogue with site and the viewer, is crucial to my practice, and provides the driving force behind the design of the work.  I embrace ideas of theatricality and narrative, and see the works as nodal points in a network of ideas.   

The underlying ideas, the second theme of my working practice, cover a range that includes the philosophies of science and knowledge, memory, the manner in which architecture and objects produce narratives.  Multiple sources connect to this main framework, from science-fiction films, tv, and narratives, to contemporary literature, poetry, and music from the medieval to the contemporary.  Scientific ideas from many fields are an important resource, and form a context for the work rather than being illustrated or used as documentary material. 

The work is accessible, open to interpretation, and laced with a degree of humour.

 

 

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Education

1998 – 2003 PhD Fine Art by Theory and Practice; The Investigation of the Museum as a 

                       Site of Control, Memory and Loss by Expression in Installation and 

                       Sculptural Form, Nottingham Trent University, UK.  Awarded January 2004

1993 -1994 M.A. Sculpture, Winchester School of Art, UK

1973 – 1976 B.A. (hons) Fine Art, Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry, UK

1972 – 1973 Foundation Course, Liverpool Polytechnic, UK