My work is about the creation and amalgamation of creatures and their
surrounding stories. It alludes to the experience of hybrids derived from
fables but going on from there to invent new characters, with a particular
interest in transformation. The intention with all of the work is to make the
viewer conscious of both their response to and their involvement with the
characters; whether it is an awareness of the uncanny and the absurd, the
notion of the spectacle; whether they are intrigued or repelled. The work also
seeks to maintain a tension between this and more playful encounters with
inventiveness and storytelling that leave space for the imagination to work.
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