
COLLAGE
My collage technique utilises printed fragments of urban consumerism, liberated from lifestyle magazines and rearranged in a new context. Compositions build from ambiguous shadows and inconsistent shifts of focus, to create scenes of vague disquiet. I attempt to replicate that slightly unnerving feeling one experiences upon entering an unfamiliar space, where the first few seconds are spent rather anxiously scanning the room for something recognisable. These claustrophobic interiors and urban nocturnes may or may not have existed; the half-realised recollections of events might not have happened there. Rather, the works represent leaves torn from the distorted visual memory bank of this unreliable narrator. Or someone else’s…

65x48cm

collage in relief 44x58cm

paper collage and origami 70x50cm

40x50cm

collage in relief 45x45cm

paper-punched collage 27x22cm

66x76cm

66x76cm

30x40cm