statement

Much of my work has been concerned with the self in society, with what we are and how we relate to others. I see it as something that is a more or less conscious, and more or less critical manifestation of society that embodies the psychology of the artist

…art is a form of cultural artefact just as are our machines, underwear and wars.

A part of the work that I have been engaged with takes the domestic and manipulates it to reflect upon the self in society… cakes in the shape of guns to celebrate victory, butch teddy bears with union jacks on their chests, autobiographic dolls that embody the experience of aging

… humour, pathos and irony are always there.

In the past a major part of my practice was to make sewn objects, domestic in scale and nature, painstaking in manufacture. They are not dolls, or puppets but are part of the age old sculptural tradition of making figures that say something of the culture around them, providing witting and unwitting testimony to the society in which they were created. Donatello’s St. George, for the Orsanmichele in Florence, purposeful, resolute, romantic, reinvented by the Victorians as a symbol for England, becomes defeated and pitiful in my post-ideological version

…all are about us.

More recently I have been interested in investigating classical sculpture e.g. the abstract work of Anthony Caro and I have begun to look at the potential of figurative work.

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