PROJECT STATEMENT
Driven by my genuine interest in painting - as a discipline and it’s objects and its histories - I look to museums and galleries as shaping the medium and it’s relevance. The museum is in many ways the ending place for the medium – displaying the work though an exhibition, the works accession into collections, and physically: the work’s captivity in storage. It also is a both a neutral and a very loaded subject; it is a blank wall or neutral backdrop for the showcasing of work, but the politics of how it arrives there are very complex.

Taking the museum as my subject matter, I seek to create an extension of this reference on to the objects of the museum: paintings. I work with exhibition preparators, seeking permission to photograph gallery spaces while they are in transition between exhibitions. I also work with archival and image resources departments within museums, to access and mine museums’ visual records of exhibition preparation and documentation. I find compositions within my source imagery that acknowledge my working history of painting and then create paintings that incorporate the language of past movements and artists and represent the forms of my source image.