it's all in the detail

The following is an excerpt from my artists statement which I had alongside my work. I often think it is useful for those viewing the work to have some sort of explanation of what the artists does and why...it helps put it into context...I hope!
I am interested in memento mori and how memories can bring to mind our own mortality. Figuring the presence and absence of people from cradle to grave I am reiterating the notion of fragility and time. At present I am using hair as a reminder of an individuals identity and therefore their mortality, a trace of self removed from a living body. Using hair as a metaphor for femininity, growth, time, death and loss. I use it as a form of thread. Stitch is important for me as a representation of the domestic, childhood and the passing of time. It is a work of process.


The pinhole technique interests me and the space in between that these pinholes create, the gaps, the void, the loss. It is an alternative form of drawing. Piercing through paper which leaves a fragile trace of an image, endeavouring to make these lost moments in life more permanent. It ensures that the drawing won’t fade, as it penetrates it is embedded, the memory not forgotten. I am trying to capture the memories of the image before the fade, crumble and disappear. I work on a small scale but in a repetitive manner, reiterating the sense of making memories more permanent and adding my own to them, so they evolve. Enabling the viewer to add their own memories and relate to the work. To me, this slow, repetitive process reflects constancy the labour intensive nature of the work and reiterates the fleeting nature of time. I am exploring the ideas of reinterpreted memories that evokes brief glimpses of fragments and lost moments in life. Ensuring they are remembered by a new audience and their memories are distilled.