I have recently started to look back at older work that aimed to be more direct and rich in its documentation and evocation of sensory experience… to try and give others a sense of what I experience in a certain setting as directly as possible, through work that is both made there and is of there.

These pages that link found objects and materials with words, as thoughts and descriptions of my experience as it happens, were an important part of my work during my degree over 10 years ago.

(irish and australian diaries - 1996 to 1997)

Through recent work on 5×5x5 and other projects I have come to recognise more fully the value of this kind of creative investigation and recording; as a way of facilitating the development of a more direct awareness of the embedded nature of an individual (me) within their surroundings, and as an opportunity to share something of that state of awareness - that richly layered and interconnected reality - through the resulting artwork.

I am hoping to take this type of work to a new level, exploring different media as ‘the page’ and so continuing to merge the ‘natural’ and man-made/recycled. I also plan to make work of varying scale with correspondingly large/small scales of bodily action, and document my experience of a variety of settings, both ‘rural’ and ‘urban’.

(exploring Savernake forest - 2nd April 2008 (detail))