My work investigates the space between things, transitions in states of being and connections through responses to the passage of time. Thinking through making  gives connections an attention and focus . Enquiry and process impacts within art making, connecting both the viewer and maker with a material culture that invites investigation of the archaeology of marks or objects. It grows a desire to draw closer, to connect in understanding, reflecting on influences from both science and the natural world.

Collaborating with artists and scientists has offered new and exciting ways of sharing thinking through making and working together. With approaches that are both sympathetic but also challenging to my work, this transdisciplinarity creates a wholeness by thinking across boundries. I am interested in exploring this space between ‘not knowing’ and then the ‘knowing’ . These states are where the making of art inhabits and also the study of the Universe.

“The relation between what we see and what we know is never really settled. ….There is a particular relation between the present and the past. If we can see the present clearly enough we shall ask the right questions about the past ‘ John Berger

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