Images & performance
Photography, synthetic imagery and visual direction
My visual work moves between observed moments and constructed scenes. Photography, synthetic editorial imagery and performance direction share an attention to light, gesture and character, while remaining distinct ways of making an image.
Photography and observation
The photographic archive includes personal images and small observed arrangements. A coffee cup, spoon and paper packet can become a study in colour and attention. A portrait carries a different kind of information about a person and a moment.
These photographs sit alongside working material such as a notebook of drawings and notes. The archive gives the visual practice a history of looking, recording and returning to details.
Constructed characters and worlds
The synthetic work includes editorial portraits, uniform and costume studies, nocturnal characters and painterly settings. These images are constructed scenes. They are labelled as synthetic, so their atmosphere is not mistaken for documentary evidence.
Theatre of light uses a seated figure, geometric sunlight and a glass sphere. At the window develops a different character through costume and interior light. A quieter world turns towards a coastal setting and a painterly treatment. Each offers a distinct visual proposition.
From an image to performance
A character emerges through posture, gesture, rhythm, costume and setting as well as a face. Those relationships connect the still image to video, choreography and performance direction.
The visual studio contains the selected images and their individual captions. It is the place to examine the work at a larger scale, including the photographs, synthetic studies, notebook and editorial cover.