Biography, statement
& curriculum vitae

( Artist statement )

My work explores how image-making technologies shape the way we remember the past, experience the present and imagine the future.

Originally trained as a painter, I later spent almost a decade working professionally in visual effects and animation, creating digital environments through texturing, lighting, rendering and compositing. Returning to painting after these experiences, I approach painting, photography, cinema and computer-generated imagery not as separate disciplines but as interconnected technologies within a longer history of representation.

Many of the works begin as constructed realities — photographs, painted studies, digital environments, found imagery and rendered scenes assembled, altered and reconfigured before returning to the painted surface. I am particularly interested in the evidence that image-making leaves behind: underdrawings and surface wear in old paintings; pixels, compression, rendering artifacts and digital noise in contemporary ones. I think of this as a form of image archaeology — an investigation into how images are constructed, circulated and believed.

Underlying the work is a long-standing interest in narrative, viewer participation and the unstable relationship between fiction and reality. By bringing these forms together, the work examines not only the worlds depicted within images, but the systems through which those worlds become imaginable in the first place.