My practice explores the limits of painting by working within the expanded field, challenging flatness, containment, and the traditional surface. I assemble handmade canvases that lean, stack, or sprawl across space, pushing painting toward objecthood while maintaining its identity. Material interaction and spatial composition take precedence over image-making, creating works that invite physical as well as visual engagement.
Red and black dominate my palette. These extremes evoke tension. Red suggests flesh, emotion, and urgency. Black speaks to absence and depth. Together, they form a bodily presence reinforced by interventions like stitches, beading, and clay forms that pierce or distort the surface. My work embraces instability, where elements hang, bulge, or collapse, creating a sense of vulnerability and resistance.
I often integrate sculptural materials like clay not to sculpt objects, but to extend the language of painting. Clay is extruded through tights or mesh, stitched into fabric, and bound by string, forcing it into constricted forms. This act of compression and release mirrors the emotional and material tensions I seek to express.
Ultimately, my aim is to create works that resist categorisation. These are intimate, tactile environments where surface, structure, and space converge, inviting the viewer to move, look closely, and reconsider what a painting can be.