Inside-outsider Art

As an artist, animator, sound designer and filmmaker I am interested in the tactile nature of hands-on making. I spend time inside and outside of the machine exploring analogue techniques, mixed with emerging digital practices.

Whether I am creating immersive spatial environments, multimedia work, digital content, or a film, the work is always rooted in a deep spatial awareness. These themes were instilled in me during my time in art school (Unitec, NZ) where I majored in spatial design.

My art practice is heavily informed by my bumpy past. I left school and home at sixteen and moved to Auckland city to do a cabinet making apprenticeship. As a teenage factory worker in South Auckland I experienced feelings of entrapment, immersion in a capitalistic greed driven machine and I developed a disdain for the inequality I was seeing emerge in my world.

It was art school in my late twenties that I started to find my feet as an individual. School is where my talents were unlocked, explored and nurtured. Now I live in Philly creating curious abstractions that intentionally cloud their themes, exposing only a hint of concept forcing the viewer to create their own perception of what I am exploring in the work. The work is unyieldingly dark but relishes in the darkness and always reaches towards the light.