My
work explores our everyday experience of
Architecture and public space, through walks and interventions in the
city,
which I record in films, books, photographs, paintings and collage.
Walking and moving through the urban environment and observing,
cataloguing,
and intervening with its states of flux and change are what propels my
work. It
is about looking and noticing, and walking is one of the best ways to
do this
as it allows you to stop, pause, and control the pace of your movement.
My
practice is an expansive investigation into the
mundane and everyday, but I am also interested in how we imagine and
dream
beyond the everyday, and how Utopian and Sci-Fi fantasies are played
out through
ideology and architecture.
An
aim of my practice is to focus on the things
that are regarded as banal and everyday within the city, things that
don’t call
attention to themselves, the things that are never mapped. I am also
interested
in how the city is changing and developed over time. My work takes a
sometimes
nostalgic and sometimes cynical stance towards past, present and future
developments
in the city.
This
is explored in recent projects, which include Festival,
a multi-layered film
constructed from Super 8/VHS footage and stills of the Festival of
Britain/South Bank and Olympic construction site, Field
Studies, an ongoing series which involve a walk and artists
book cataloguing a mundane area or location, and a series of Olympic Interventions, around the 2012 construction
zone.
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