At the heart of my practice is a commitment to the developmental.
I regard myself as an independent explorer of visual territories. I have persistently worked within contested areas of textile practice, embroidery, pattern, lace and recently floral imagery. Sites, which offer unbroken traditions, cross cultural interventions and a freedom to work outside the mainstream.
I believe the most innovative textiles emanate from a synthesis of historical and contemporary sources, based upon an assured understanding of both textile technique and history. The diversity of my contribution, exhibitions, commissions, teaching, curatorial, advocacy, writing, and architectural consultancy, exemplifies the breadth of my involvement in the promotion of contemporary textiles.
Recent work, inspired by the traditions of floral imagery has utilized computerized machine embroidery, acrylic paint, photography and collage. Exploring the illusionary space between two and three dimensions, these works are colourful, dramatic, rhythmic and holographic in feel with intense detail that merges at a distance into strongly optical configurations. The premise for his most recent exhibition Seeds of Memory 2015 is to identify, contextualize and map a series of primal ideas, drawn from the artist’s own practice that will provide the visual DNA for a new 9 part group of circular works New Worlds.
