The work is about the exploration of my chosen material, a mass-manufactured polycarbonate, and its possibilities and limitations.

Taking inspiration from the built environment around me I explore the control, the lines in which we are restricted and bound to. These spaces contain planes, forms, reflections and shadows, tying us to our surroundings.  Creating pattern and depth I celebrate the geometrical shape and structures and explore these limitations we unconsciously accept and even embrace; this form of obstacle and protection. 

I am working to build on the relationship between the mass-produced and the hand-made. By using two single elements, the coloured tube and the drawn or printed line. These, when repeated ad infinitum, generate through accumulation a result and depth which expresses this connection between the maker and the prefabricated and the space in-between. 

The colour is not what is originally conceived, but used as a means of expressing light and shade. It is developed and composed through use of the applied repetitive line, the almost impersonal regularity and evenness both reduces and celebrates the trace of the artist’s hand.

 

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