Artist Statement

Ours is no golden age of plenty and leisure time - it is an Age of Panic. Everything is interconnected yet so uncommunicative: so much information, so little meaning. My work takes our continuing fixation with concepts of the apocalypse and wider social anxiety as its overarching subject. Using both the traditional disciplines of sculpture and painting, I use materials that reference the different stages of human development to highlight our place in time and our evolving relationships with each other. As an entity that watches or guards, ‘Sentinel’ is precisely that - referencing the watchtower, guard-post or fantastical, yet is explicitly neither. We gaze through as it gazes back and beyond, creating a shared experience of watching and being watched.