Increasingly our lives are mediated by digital screens, creating a sense of a divided consciousness, of being present but also absent in how we experience our personal interactions with others.
My practice has explored the “absent presence” of family and friends; the individual in isolation, waiting, and feeling under threat.
Concepts of transparency are reflected in my work, sometimes using the silhouette and empty public spaces at night, to denote an absent presence. My work explores light, using the cyanotype process to allow images to emerge and create their own presence. Illuminated foil casts a shadow presence in my video work. The process of layering with acetates, paint and using segmented Japanese Gampi paper can act as a filter through which one experiences and interprets what one sees.
I am interested not only in what is present, but also in what is absent from that presence.
Lux Blue Series 1. Cyanotype print on Fabriano paper, 140 x 120cm
Lightscape 1. Acetates on diffuse acrylic, 152.5 x 133 x 8cm
Lightscape 2. Acetates on diffuse acrylic, 90 x 70 x 8cm
Umbra. Japanese Gampi paper on canvas, 250 x 150cm
In Absentia 1 Lexicon. Photographic image inverted on Permajet Portrait White 285 Paper, 100 x 70cm
In Absentia 2 Blackrock Dart Station. Cyanotype print on Permajet, Portrait White 285 Paper, 75 x 60cm
In Absentia 3 Blackrock Park. Photograph on Permajet Portrait White 285 Paper, 100 x 70cm
In Absentia 4 Lexicon. Cyanotype print on Permajet Portrait White 285 Paper, 75 x 60cm
Lightscape 3. Cyanotype prints on Fabriano and Permajet Portrait White 285 Paper, 240 x 140 cm
Lux Blue Series 2. Cyanotype print on Permajet White Portrait Paper, 150 x 60cm