ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Ka-boom!
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I am a conceptual artist and my work is site responsive utilising multi media. The materials I choose resonate with the setting or are found on site, they therefore privilege the frame and the context (Price, 2002); it is the situation, or the people associated with it that I am exhibiting, critiquing or glorifying.
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Recent works
For a church setting I exhibited work on the weight of the female heart; church volunteers; and the reflective or sometimes confrontational nature of religion.
For a pub setting, my work addressed the affects of alcohol and the fun aspects of pub life.
I am currently interested the relationship between art and empowerment and aim for the viewer to be able to relate to the work. My concern is the subtle or overt effect that institutions and their processes can have on individuals or groups. As an artist, my role is to investigate, probe and identify the overt or more subtle issues that relate to the site.
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Theoretical Touchstones
The Situationist International and Relational Aesthetics. My methodology is to build relationships on site and work sympathetically with the situation. Where appropriate, I will critique institutions focussing on their processes. "Revolutionary artists are those who call for intervention; and who have themselves intervened in the spectacle to disrupt and destroy it" (Guy Debord, 1960).
"The work's social effects are more important than its appearance."
Robertson, J. & McDaniel, C. (2005) Themes of contemporary art. Third Edition. New York N.Y. USA: Oxford University Press.
Stallabrass, J. (1999) High art lite. London: Verso.
"The best pieces are those that respond to the environment...[these give an] air of authenticity."
O’Neill, P. (2012) The culture of curating and the curating of culture(s). Cambridge, MASS, U.S.A.: MIT Press.
"Bourdieu asserts that any perception of the art world must go beyond an understanding of art as something to be appreciated solely in terms of aesthetics, to include concepts of value, classification, and characterization within the socio-cultural sphere. Artists and curators are cooperative producers of culture."