CV

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The foundation of my creative practice is influenced by texture and colour.
My current work uncovers the stunning microscopic landscapes that are unseen by the naked eye.
Exploring the beautiful minute forms of the weft and weave of the sculptural fibre pieces I make to create delicate textural imagery and environments.

I use a marriage of handmade sculptural textiles and various ‘New technologies’, such as 3D virtual software, scanning electron microscopes, laser cutting and etching and digital photography to create my work.
Science and ‘New Technology’ constantly inform my work on both a technical and creative level.

Textiles being inherently tactile in its nature, make it to me the most exciting art form to bring to virtual space.
The longing we have to handle and explore cloth and fibre is also instinctive in our character.
Placing textiles within virtual space aswell onto a flat photographic surface enhances the tension that derives from this automatic need to touch.
The use of ‘New technologies’ enables us to expose these remarkable unreachable spaces by making these minute forms immense.
We are now able to view and creatively manipulate at the very smallest level, creating real/ fantastical microcosm’s.

The process of laser etching and cutting has transformed my work in many ways, as the very precise computerised process has created a random outgrowth, the laser changes the fabric structure at a very minute level, which is exaggerated by the process’s of enlargement that I use.
This has added a new experimental nature to my creative process and I feel I am being sucked further into the fibre.