artist statement 

my practice is inter-disciplinary, multi-media and multi-modal examining the boundaries and convergencies between art and science. i experiment new dialogues and collaborations between art, anthropology and ecology. i aim to re-conceptualise and re-materialise the interactions and interdependencies between humans, nature and technology. my work aims to critically evaluate nature:society::culture:ecology and how we can understand radical human ecology in new ways through the practice, processes, visual codes and conventions of contemporary art.

my practice aims to critically engage with (1) making art and modes of research; practice, processes and methodologies, (2) modes of reference and representation; form, aesthetics, object and meaning, (3) modes of embodiment and enacted practice; multifaceted ways of being and knowing, (4) art as social process and modes of engagement and infrastructures of art. 

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i critically re-think contexts and conditions, sites and systems of practice and exhibition. i test the opportunities and constraints of field-based and studio-based research. i aim to compare how different localities (place), spatialities (space) and temporalities (time) elicit different modes of representation. i examine nature through the lens of human experience, memory and imagination.

i test the benefits and limitations of photography and painting to mediate, simulate and augment an experience and knowledge of nature. first, i test field-based practice, multi-sited ethnography. i test photography as a medium to examine nature through a detached, empirical, objective, structured lens. the work is a description of external realities, the physical state of the world. second, ​i test studio-based practice, auto-ethnography. i test painting as a medium to examine nature through a self-reflexive, theoretical, experimental lens. the work is an analysis of internal experiences, the psychological, philosophical aspects of the human condition. i present both dualistic sets of data as a mixed-method installation to mediate and transverse artistic and scientific theoretical and methodological frameworks. i test exhibition as aesthetic inquiry and curation as mediating activity. the work aims to simulate new and productive dialogues about ontology (ways of being), epistemology (ways of knowing), method, praxis and the cognitive function of art. ​​​​​

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