The nature of my work
My artwork consists of video, photography, drawings and printmaking.
I started making video about 4 years ago now. Having focussed on mainly video for some years, the different media I work in are coming together in recent works. I am currently working on a video, a series of photographs and a series of large scale charcoal drawings on canvas inspired by childhood fantasies of uninhabited tropical islands, adventure films and the disillusion of adulthood. Apparent paradise and dystopia. Beauty and decay. Tropicalia. What's fake and what's real.
My videos are shot hand held, as if to ensure the 'hand' or 'touch' of the artist is still visible. Like how I love to be able to see the touch of the artist, the hesitation, the corrections made in drawings in pencil or charcoal.
The videos subjects vary from horses, to windows, to the ocean. The videos are poetic moving images of subjects that captivate me. Some are more narrative that others. Some are purely aesthetic. Visual poetry. Others are more conceptual works of art.
Most of my drawings have a narrative atmosphere and show a world in which often-unexpected relations between different elements confront the viewer with unclear feelings and certain confusion. The finely crafted drawings have a disquieting, dreamlike quality.
The work is not so much influenced by the art historical context, but is more related to a wider view of human experience, relations between cultures and relations between the self and other. The protagonists, whether human or animal, are enigmatic, elusive and seem absorbed in another world.
I draw inspiration from personal experiences, different cultures, anthropology, mythology, literature and photography.
In my' recent drawings, there is no more figurative representation and thereby the line of thought is liberated. This can be seen in my drawings made in 2016, 'The Old man and the Sea series'. These pencil drawings are closely related to the videos made in the same year; 'Horsebath' and 'I could just drift, he thought, and sleep'. Inspired by Hemingway's novel; The Old man and the sea.
In the drawings the image is not the elaboration of a pre-thought idea, but is largely determined by the process of drawing itself. A typical harmony evolves in the drawings in spite of the seemingly incoherent elements; multiple perspectives, proportions, scales and styles of drawing are used in one drawing. In the end, the quality of the drawing in itself is equally important to its subject or ‘story’. Composition and use of material thus play an important role in the constitution of meaning.
The drawings try to document the memory of a continuous longing.
I started making video about 4 years ago now. Having focussed on mainly video for some years, the different media I work in are coming together in recent works. I am currently working on a video, a series of photographs and a series of large scale charcoal drawings on canvas inspired by childhood fantasies of uninhabited tropical islands, adventure films and the disillusion of adulthood. Apparent paradise and dystopia. Beauty and decay. Tropicalia. What's fake and what's real.
My videos are shot hand held, as if to ensure the 'hand' or 'touch' of the artist is still visible. Like how I love to be able to see the touch of the artist, the hesitation, the corrections made in drawings in pencil or charcoal.
The videos subjects vary from horses, to windows, to the ocean. The videos are poetic moving images of subjects that captivate me. Some are more narrative that others. Some are purely aesthetic. Visual poetry. Others are more conceptual works of art.
Most of my drawings have a narrative atmosphere and show a world in which often-unexpected relations between different elements confront the viewer with unclear feelings and certain confusion. The finely crafted drawings have a disquieting, dreamlike quality.
The work is not so much influenced by the art historical context, but is more related to a wider view of human experience, relations between cultures and relations between the self and other. The protagonists, whether human or animal, are enigmatic, elusive and seem absorbed in another world.
I draw inspiration from personal experiences, different cultures, anthropology, mythology, literature and photography.
In my' recent drawings, there is no more figurative representation and thereby the line of thought is liberated. This can be seen in my drawings made in 2016, 'The Old man and the Sea series'. These pencil drawings are closely related to the videos made in the same year; 'Horsebath' and 'I could just drift, he thought, and sleep'. Inspired by Hemingway's novel; The Old man and the sea.
In the drawings the image is not the elaboration of a pre-thought idea, but is largely determined by the process of drawing itself. A typical harmony evolves in the drawings in spite of the seemingly incoherent elements; multiple perspectives, proportions, scales and styles of drawing are used in one drawing. In the end, the quality of the drawing in itself is equally important to its subject or ‘story’. Composition and use of material thus play an important role in the constitution of meaning.
The drawings try to document the memory of a continuous longing.