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Artist Statement
I have an enthusiasm for the Uncanny; an emotional response
to an image, object or situation that has the ability to simultaneously intrigue and unnerve. It raises questions of familiarity
and beauty while unsettling the viewer with subtle distortions of what one believes to be normal. It is this 'crisis of
the proper' that has been an inspiration to my practice for some time and I endeavour to communicate this feeling of the
Uncanny through sculpture.
I endeavour to give my work the beauty and delicacy that is important in luring the
viewer before revealing itself as strange and uncomfortably formed. My work is not horror, it has a subtlety that precedes
this and achieves a mysterious almost classical beauty. I do not wish to terrify with abject images but to touch a deeper
cord within the individual. Sigmund Freud’s 1919 essay ‘Unheimlich’ is a study into the cause and effects
of this ambiguous subject; and have proved to be most helpful in directing my work. The writings of Nicholas Royle and Mike
Kelley have also been particularly helpful in forming a relationship between my work and the uncanny.
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