About Me 

Moray School of Art graduate 2023, with a First Class Honours in Fine Art.

 

My practice through the medium of oil paint explores our personal connection to objects as an extension of ourselves due to how much value we attribute to them.

 

The sum of our collected objects accumulated within our homes or valued environments can become an outer representation of ourselves. Investigating our connection to the everyday object as an extension of the self, I am inspired by how these connections arise between the owner and the possession. In my practice, I question when an object stops becoming a possession and transforms into a part of the self. These objects that we accumulate are nostalgic and connect us to memories, people, and places.

Through the medium of oil paint, I explore this connection through removing the object from its mundane environment. The value and sentiment of the object is equally represented by the care and treatment of the surface underneath the painted object as much as the painted object itself, where the soft curved surfaces represent the preciousness of these objects and the significance of what it represents. These paintings depict objects that all hold the same value despite their differences. Whether broken, worn, or pristine, all these objects still have the strength to hold within our personal sentiments. These paintings which are either displayed in a diptych or show a multiple, reflect the exploration of my experience of being a fraternal twin.