About

My creative practice explores the connection between the digital and physical worlds. My work utilises a variety of digital mediums, incorporating projection, 3D digital models, photography, digital drawings/paintings, animation and augmented reality. I am intrigued by the boarders between art and technology and the possibilities for experimentation within transdisciplinary art.

Although I also create paintings and drawings, this has recently become backgrounded to my digital work. As I have delved deeper into digital artwork, painting and drawing has become increasingly dedicated to research, planning and contextualisation. I utilise this as a means to design and organise concepts into digital work. This manner of working accentuates my interest in the relationship between the physical and digital.

In the new strange times we are experiencing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and an increase in technocapitalism, digital reality is more encompassing than ever before. Through the pandemic we have used technology as a means of communication and continuing with our lives. As a result of this, we have become reliant on it as a means of experiencing the world, seeing the world through a digital lens. My work embraces this increased use of technology and utilises it to stimulate a deeper engagement with the physical world. My practice forces people to take attention to things which may otherwise be ignored or not noticed.

My recent piece Elucidating Reality exemplifies my curiosity in the relationship between these two worlds, utilising augmented reality technology to draw the viewers attention to something as mundane as empty frames. The animation itself consists of digital paintings which mirror my physical painting style, combining worlds while commenting on the detachment between traditional and digital art, enhanced by the modernistic QR codes positioned adjacent to ornate frames. The viewer is invited to observe the artwork alongside the two painted viewers in the animation, following a similar journey of realisation and acceptance of an abstracted reality both inside and outside the frames.

My work explores the co-existence of the natural and unnatural/technological world and how these worlds combine and interact with one another. Through the lens of the digital world that grasps the attention of society, my creative practice uses art to assist the viewer in experiencing the world more.