Introduction

I have always been interested in the possibilities of materials and objects that have a generative potential. By that it is meant those that, for example, can generate light or heat or have other properties. I intentionally incorporate into the work the most ordinary or utilitarian items, things that are not initially culturally loaded or that do not have a history. They are objects which can act as metaphors for other ideas and are things which have a generative property in their own right. This, however, is then sometimes stifled and sometimes distilled. The work often juxtaposes polar opposites, or there is an inversion of one opposite. Many pieces deal with language and codes and layers of meaning. My interests also extend to the relationship between art, science and nature, or at least natural orders, juxtaposing the random and the constant.

More recently, I have been involved in academic research, which has shifted the emphasis of my work and practice to other areas. I am still however very interested in the possibilies of materials and of the potential of long term change within different types of semi organic material used in artistic practice.