Interested in discipline I hold back and reduce to explore different kinds of containment: restraint, saturation and captivation, the deceptively quiet outward appearances.

I work, absorbed, in regimentally repetitive systems: extruding, cutting, scoring, and joining. Shapes, predominantly triangles and kites, melodically glide, mirror and reflect forming silently undulating lattice and quilted structures. Saturated colours seep into the concertinaed walls to form an androgynous shield; it pulsates and fluctuates, the breath of something contained is camouflaged. With blasts of movement dense walls open and close to reveal spurts of activity in the steadfast forms. In turn, with time, the geometric shapes, dark colours, modular contours and staunch outlines merge to capture, restrict and absorb motion and excess. My work has much in common with sewing and carpentry. Forms are constructed from smaller parts, schematic patterns and diagrams define form, and clothing, buildings and clay are intimately affiliated to the body its place, sense and space.

I reference imposing fragments: the relics of industrialisation; factories and mills looming in overgrown conurbations; multi-storey car parks, stairwells, tunnels, footpaths. The in-between places, supposedly senseless spaces, seemingly devoid of character. Without overt emotional content my work is discrete and quiet but undoubtedly present.