Artist Statement

My drawings use different strategies to record, depict and present models of permanence and temporality using pre-existing artefacts and artworks. For me  pre-existing works have a complex relationship to time and permanence, one that does not have a linear chronology.  They depict and represent the historic time in which they were made, embed the time of their reprographic production, present the time of the work itself, withhold the time of possible conservation treatments and are entwined with the biographical time of the artist. 

A further temporal reading is present when a drawing employs an intensive time-consuming drawing process, one that establishes a direct relationship to the source material.  Each stage of this process, from the original historical production to a contemporary response are all forms of interpretation and adaptation. This interpretative aspect prompted me to respond to a variety of historical works including Anni Albers, Vermeer, Cimabue and Thomas Kirk.