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# Artist Statement
My practice examines masculinity as a social and cultural construction, questioning the structures through which ideas of strength, authority, and vulnerability are established and maintained. Rather than seeking to represent an alternative masculine identity, I am interested in how these structures might be questioned through material processes. Care plays a central role in this investigation, not simply as a subject, but as a way of working, constructing, and relating to materials.
Working between painting, textiles, and sculpture, I use sewing, layering, folding, and the manipulation of fabric to explore the relationship between surface and structure. My background in architecture continues to inform how I approach materials, particularly the tension between what is visible and the systems that hold things together. Sewing interests me as a constructive act: a gesture that can join, support, repair, or alter an existing form. More recently, I have begun removing threads from woven fabrics, interrupting their internal organisation and working with the possibilities that emerge. The process is not directed towards a predetermined form. New structures are gradually developed through an ongoing negotiation with the material.
I am interested in the point at which a structure appears to approach its limits without necessarily collapsing. This tension, between stability and uncertainty, presence and absence, connects my work to an understanding of the sublime that is less concerned with spectacle than with suspension and the limits of what can be perceived or controlled. Across different scales and materials, I seek to create situations in which the viewer encounters this tension without necessarily seeing the mechanisms that produce it.