“I find stuff, anything, everything and what this stuff has in common is that nobody wants it.
It’s the left over leftovers, discarded objects not fit for a bin because if they were I wouldn't find them.
I especially covet objects from arterial economic highways along which I travel. Objects that have been altered by random acts of violence or abuse like the wheels of commerce rolling over drinks cans and animals, the space and life punched out, extinguished, flattened, ripped and torn.
This work is about giving a voice to silence, the minority, marginalized, discarded, voiceless leftovers of lives, my life, ruled by consumption and alienation.”
Before starting my degree at PCAD I worked in both building and photojournalism. I travelled a lot and used 35mm black-and-white film to record my experiences. Since coming to college I have explored a number of different mediums including film, abstract painting, wood and metalwork. The culmination of this exploration can be seen in my most recent work, a towering three dimensional structure made entirely of discarded rubbish, including a broken rusty satellite dish, wood and the residues of previously made art work, smashed rear view mirror and coloured plastic.
Although the medium I am now working with seems miles away from my original photographic work, I am still motivated by two recurring themes: Journeys and people or things which have been marginalized or discarded. The photographs in the book give the impression of three stages of the Studio 11 structure and the journey, the transformation it has been through. I have enjoyed using an old medium to capture the essence of the new one.
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