3D Paintings
I call these works 3D Paintings. My practice explores the interphases and overlaps between two- and three-dimensional forms, drawing on a range of media, including sculpture, photography and light. Through these works, I seek to recreate a heightened experience of landscape, reflecting the subjective and mediated nature of my own first-hand encounters with place.
Evocative and deeply personal, these works bring together memories, domestic histories and raw physical materials, suspended within transparent acrylic enclosures. They occupy a space between painting, sculpture and installation, challenging the boundaries between these forms and inviting the viewer to reconsider how images, objects and memories inhabit space.
Everyday experiences and cultural practices often inform my work. Taxidermied birds, for instance, evoke a childhood memory of my grandmother scattering leftover bread in the courtyard of our house for sparrows to peck at—a familiar cultural practice in the part of the world I come from. Through such objects and recollections, I explore the ways in which personal memory, domestic rituals and shared cultural experiences become embedded in the landscape of our lives.
My use of enclosed, transparent structures is also informed by the work of American artist Joseph Cornell, whose boxed assemblages draw on personal interests, collected objects and fragments of memory to evoke a sense of nostalgia and poetic possibility. I am equally interested in the tank works of British artist Mariele Neudecker and Damien Hirst’s use of transparent glass and acrylic tanks to contain suspended organic matter, fluids and preserved animals. These artists offer different ways of considering the relationship between the contained object, its surrounding space and the viewer’s perception.
Through my 3D Paintings, I bring together the material, the remembered and the imagined, creating intimate, suspended worlds in which landscape becomes not simply a place to be observed, but an experience shaped by memory, personal history and the act of looking.
