His work takes the form of drawings, paintings and sculpture, he’ll often play with technology too to emphasise his physical works. In his drawings scenes are presented to us that jar with the absence of human forms as the scenes themselves ache for human presence, meaning and context. With his sculptures we are presented with human figures without immediate context, challenging us to form it in our own minds. It is this absence of information in his work that creates tension and interest, deliberately laid out puzzles. Challenges whose correct answer is the one you settle on for yourself.
'I make work that acknowledges the complicated business of life in the information age. The sheer quantity of content is overwhelming. Old certainties lie in crumpled heaps at our feet and the questions of who and what to trust seem ever present. But the business of living goes on and making work in this context is perhaps just my way of introducing a pause for reflection in the relentless flow of things. An attempt to add some gravity, or lock something down. The images, whether in paintings or sculpture, emerge slowly and seek simplicity. They are often representations of people in some predicament or other, or arrangements of objects that might be interpreted as such. They draw widely on classical traditions in art as much as they do from the more popular visual languages found in comics and films. If they have anything to say it is that we’re still here somewhere.'
John Clark, July 2022
