My work as a sculptor and conceptual artist takes inspiration from the everyday nuances of the human form. I aim to use them to better understand our role within the world. I prefer to use a mixture of figurative and conceptual elements to create sculptures that resonate with humanity, social constructs, and to follow my beliefs in changing perceptions of viewing human form through deeper understanding.
My artistic influences encompass contemporary artists such as (but not limited to) Ron Mueck, Lawrence Edwards, and Fabio Viale while still taking reference from old masters that have left legacy in form we see to this day. Along with artistic inspiration, I like to also close the divide between science and the arts by appropriating the static, emotionless educational depictions of human form and using this as more than a clinically detached observational tool.
The human form is so diverse and fluid that I could spend a lifetime trying to capture every variance and still not cover the smallest pinprick of what we innately understand as human form. I am drawn again and again to how varied humans are from one person to the next, and yet instantly discernible from any other species on the planet. So dependent are we on this human visual that we have even evolved to anthropomorphise inanimate objects with human likeness and features, and in turn project our emotions onto them in the hope that this will somehow impart personality, love, affinity and care onto something cold and motionless. This deep need of the human race to connect with other humans, puts the sole visual of the human form into a distinctly personal and emotional experience that crosses from physical form to emotional understanding.
I am interested in the only true object we will ever own. From birth to death, this object is ours, and only ours. All other possessions are simply an illusion of ownership and are borrowed until our departure. This one and only material possession of ours. We care for it, we abuse it. We believe it to be both invulnerable and weak, eternal and fleeting. We yearn to be both universal and individual. We envy better and loathe worse. We live in the constant denial of its failure, yet simultaneously fear the inevitable. We fuel it, wash it, groom it, love it, hate it. We are judged on it, judger of it, adored and repulsed by it. We are it, and we are more than it. It is both our most accessible representation of ourselves and our biggest social insecurity. Our liberator and jailor. It provides all our freedoms and all our limitations. This is our vehicle
The strength of the human form to convey complex messages and signals, whether this is a conscious display or altogether unintentional, it is hard to dispute the affect that this has on everyday life. This is the story that I want to explore in my work.

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