Artist Statement
My present research uses landscape to make inquiries into concepts such as sense of place, identity, absence, and belonging. Drawing upon personal experience as a catalyst for such investigations, spaces primarily from the surrounding area of my childhood home provide a source in which physical and psychological journeys present themselves.
After having the experience of living in different places, both nationally and internationally and calling many surroundings 'home', in 2004 I relocated back to the area where I grew up after a period of ten years away. When this return offered uncertainty and a sense of displacement instead of the once familiarity and comfort, the sanctuary of being 'home' had changed and was thrown into question. Such a move has led me to examine how lived experience is central to the subject of place, and when specifically asking what home is, how memory combines with encountered spaces in order to try and define place has become a key component within my work.
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