My practice sits in the slippery space between dreaming and waking where logic softens and objects begin to behave badly.

I am drawn to surrealism not as a historic style to be quoted, but as a method of permission, a way of allowing the unconscious to lead form, material and narrative. The works which inspire me tend to operate through excess humour and discomfort where these symbols are sites that desire and anxiety does co-exist.

I use sculpture and painting as tools to materialise my internal worlds. Oil paint, with its slow drying time and viscous depth, mirror exactly how my dreams unfold: layered, sticky and resistant to clarity.

I allow the process to act as a form of psychoanalysis, which is deeply rooted in surrealism, not just by me but by the viewer to. I do not have an interest in explaining my dreams, I trust them to be a form of knowledge that I move into the physical world.

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