As an artist who also dabbles in theatre design, I’ve found the overlap between the two areas is the greatest source of inspiration for me when creating something new. It’s encouraged me to reconsider how space and environment can impact both an impartial viewer and someone interacting directly with the work, whether it’s in a narrative sense or emotionally.

Regardless of if a person is in an exhibition observing from close by or watching from a distance in an audience, I think every artwork involves a very personal interaction – which is often to do with memory, personal past experiences, and new, alternative ways of looking at something. Due to this, I’ve been fascinated in my work with looking back on my own memories, and trying to think about how perspective and pattern have both changed and have been changed by the way I remember the different environments I’ve been in.

As someone who has always been a painter, experimenting with bringing my paintings outwards into a more 3D sense with sculptures and objects has allowed me to explore this in a way that brings new angles and contexts into the equation, and given me a new sense of what interacting visually with an environment can mean.