Artist Statement 

‘What speaks to us, seemingly, is always the big event, the untoward, the extra-ordinary: the front- page splash, the banner headlines. Railway trains only begin to exist when they are derailed, and the more passengers that are killed, the more the trains exists.’ (Perec, 1982).  

Almost every day I see a number of buses, cars, pedestrians, chewing gum on the side walk, the side walk itself, doors, houses, chairs, tables, fleeting eye contact/interactions with strangers, short talk with shop assistants, my neighbour, my neighbour’s cat, and so on. I see these things but I rarely register them in my mind or question their presence as they have become overly familiarised to me. Through art I generate ways of rupturing the mundane every day in order to highlight it. I do this mostly through photography, found objects and domestic objects. 

Alongside rupturing the everyday I reflect upon, respond to and document the everyday as honestly as possible, without trying too hard to create an illusion of how the world is. The everyday doesn’t stop so my practice will always be ongoing and the possibilities are endless.