AA2A Residency Work  (October 2015 - May 2016)

From October 2015 to May 2016 I was Artist in Residence as part of the AA2A scheme at Sheffield Hallam University, undertaking a project which explores the issues of authorship and narrative surrounding the theme of the family album and how photography can enable us to decipher relationship dynamics. For the project I worked with found glass negatives of a Scottish military family from 1902. I examined how different development techniques can add tone, mood and emotion to photographic images and how accompanying text and presentation can add to or alter the story the images tell.

Hand Inked Photographs (2015)

Image Maps (Exhibited as part of  'Flux' at Exchange Place Studios in June 2015.)

My work explored how people visually read photographic imagery. Working with found photographs I took the original images and processed the images in the same way I would one of my own pictures. By producing image flow diagrams over the photograph I documented the movement, flow and pathway my eye followed when exploring the image for the first time. By taking someone else's image and transforming it back to the development stage I permanently suspended it in transitional state, it is forever trapped in-between the stages of test shot and final image.

Malleable Series (Exhibited as part of  'CUT' at Bank Street Arts in August 2014.)

This project involving woven images is inspired by traditional craft techniques. In this age of digital photography it is difficult to display the amount of work a professional photographer puts into producing a final image and I wanted to create a series that explores physical traces of human interaction in the artwork.
I have named the series Malleable as, when creating the work, the image is being shaped and formed into a new texture, it is adapting to its new woven state, transforming for the static image it was before.
Each woven image is original, unique, handmade and numbered to reflect its place in the Malleable series.