Coloured pencil on paper, 76 x 224 cm.

I design materially driven systems as a methodology to produce artworks, combining repetitious labour and serendipitous material textures. Equal parts chance and conscious decision-making in the studio, I hope to visualise a tension between system-based perfection and the looseness inherent in handmade objects. My artworks have relied increasingly on chance-based elements to dictate composition. For example, the triangles in ‘Colour Wheel’ started as a random scatter of three points on a sheet. These points were then filled in with densely packed, fine, ruled lines. Though the overall colouration looks different from one to the next, all fours triangles were created with the same set of coloured pencils, a selection chosen at random. Each arranges these colours in a different sequence, looping the sequence as the lines fill in the shape. I am interested in the way the colours shift perceptually, both when comparing each triangle to those beside it and when looking at individual coloured lines as they converge into a muddy vanishing point. Many of my influences originate from the Conceptual Art and Minimalist movements of the 60s and 70s. While being conscious of situating my practice in the contemporary, I find myself nostalgic for a time and place I never experienced. My art practice feels very interlinked with time, the repetitious nature of my mark making and systems becoming an abstract visual record of time and labour. While making, I think about the ambiguous nostalgic associations that my artworks can connect to.

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