Catalogue text

This is a copy of the text which I included about my work in the final show catalogue;

To make, to unmake, to remake...
I have an experimental and process led practice usually stemming from research which is based on historical art practices and movements. Recently I have moved away from the ritualistic making of objects to investigating how the effects of making, in a post-minimal practice, can be transferred to performance video. Using video as a recording device I have been looking at the performativity of objects in relation to the body. Each piece of my work can be seen as an utterance, one that is engaged in an ongoing conversation with past and present work (both my own and that of others).

To do, to undo, to redo..........
In my practice repetition is used as a principle means of knowing and as a major factor both in the internal and external processes of the work.
By repetition we re-cognise what has come before, thereby drawing connections between a cognitive event in the past and its 'recurrence' in the present. Repetition renders knowledge unconscious, as repeatedly playing scales on a piano result in being able to play them without consciously thinking about every note: potentially leading to a deeper form of knowledge.