Pod/Path + Cell series
The Pod/Path body of work was produced from 2005 to 2008. Impasto grounds metaphorically stand for the grounds or body of the earth itself. Gestural marks/shapes appear in the grounds of the picture plane. I use these marks as evocations of path and/or pod. Path: mapping: waterways, migration ways, pathways, movement, individual/communal /historical networks. Pod: seeds, cells, body, groupings, covering, internal, genetic networks. I approached building each work as a form of acknowledging more-than-human intelligence, specifically animal ancestral generational knowledge, and genetic adaptations of plants within their habitat. (images 6 to 10)
The cell series, produced from 2007 to 2010, was engaged with the botanic and the body. By using abstract imagery of cell structures, plant and body forms, and by employing the visceral characteristics of paint, this work presents analogies between plant and human life systems and recognizes the close associations within these systems. (first 5 images)
In both series, gestural marks in the paint grounds are built up, covered and exposed to create a materially and visually rich surface. The work addresses the depth of information in the natural world that is becoming ever more lost or diminished as a result of unsustainable exploitation and extraction.
These bodies of work overlapped in production from 2005 to 2008.
exhibition essay - 2 person exhibition which included this work