I work across a range of media and forms of practice from making objects, to organizing public events, to facilitating projects and collaborations. I am based at APEC studios in Hove on the South Coast of England and, as Work For A Living, I also work with organizations who employ artists.<\/p>\n
I would like my work to generate a discussion around it. The ground on which I operate shifts daily due to the demands of earning a living. This, along with variations in external funding strategies determines the nature of my working conditions, resulting in a practice which is eclectic and elastic.<\/p>\n
I have a background in languages and German Romanticism, which feeds into my work through the way I investigate the conventions which we inhabit, such as language and how experience can be translated into a form. I often find myself addressing different social concerns, perhaps because my practice tends to inhabit mainly the social or the personal or those points and moments where they coincide.<\/p>\n
When working with others, I aim to explore new ways of co-existing. By questioning assumptions directly or by trying to do something different within the already prescribed ways in which we organize ourselves as humans, new spaces can possibly be opened up.<\/p>\n
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\nFrom a letter by K\u00e4the Kollwitz, which translates as any and all of the following: \u201cI will work now\u201d, \u201cI want to work now\u201d, \u201cI will be effective in what I do now\u201d, \u201cI want to be effective in what I do now\u201d, \u201cI want to make a difference in what I do now\u201d, \u201cI need to work now\u201d, \u201cI need to do work that has an effect on the times we live in\u201d and so on . . .<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"