ARTIST STATEMENT January 2022
The looping film ‘To steal is also to fly’ (Kate Targett, 2022), is from my MA Fine Art body of work exploring how identity is realised within digital spaces, where bodies are fragments that become dispersed across time, and real and imagined landscapes.
Drawing is my core discipline and underpins my approach to research across making, reading and writing. Through creative engagement projects I explore the role of drawing in undestsanding our the experience of place. I design and develop site-based activity where people work, mix and experience everyday spaces: from the hospital to the courthouse to the community meeting place.
In this more personal work, developed mostly from home under Covid restrictions, I moved into a visual and written exploration of the landscapes that arise through our construction of meaning around simple things collected from the land. A taken stone from a now-protected site came to express how time, myth, home and belonging emerge and escape once we try to centre ourselves as matter of the Earth.