My work hopes to interrogate the contemporary human condition through ongoing investigation into social experiences, including collisions of identity relating to the parent, the conundrum of aging and ‘coming of age’, as well as the negotiation of self-image and internal rhetoric.

Physical, emotional and psychological states are identified and visually re-assembled using performance based self portraits, executed in front of the camera lens. Appropriated symbol and object act as ‘props’ to support and inform each staged scenario; and subsequently gain expressive significance when presented with the body and face of the artist. The fusion of the exterior/scene and the interior/emotion is therefore key to the making and understanding of each photographic image. Each perfomance is enacted on a created stage, designed to control the context of the subject and remove any opportunity for external articles to influence the reading of the finished image. For this reason my work has a strong theatrical element, which at times may appear influenced by the surreal.