My work usually relates to what currently interests me, which at the moment is the ocean, psychic powers, and various sea creatures, and to that extent it also relates to my personal experience with autism, how I relate to things and how I communicate with people. My artwork is always very colourful and typically cluttered, often related to outer space and weird futuristic mystical worlds - combined with an oceanic theme, or retro technology. All to create and re-contextualise everything into a new (but not quite utopian) world. Artists whose work greatly inspires me are Georgina Starr and Mariko Mori, Mori’s work deals greatly with the future and its shiny and sleek aesthetics, whereas Starr’s bright and colourful work which deals with topics of psychic power is more clunky and esoteric. I admire and take inspiration from these facets of their work.My multi-disciplinary approach to art making often starts with collage, as it is a fun way to gather imagery and colours for making pieces, as well as becoming their own unique objects. I use various materials alongside collage such as crayons, markers, and pastels; for their childishness and textural qualities and their highly saturated pigmentation, echoing my love of 1990s aesthetics. These collages have become the basis for much of the animated aspects within my current body of work where the layering from physical collages collides with the digital age we now live in resulting in a lo-fi and conjured speculative future.
