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My current teaching is on the BA (Hons) Fine Art course, and as Module Leader on 2nd year option modules Approaches to the Human Figure, Colour and the Human Figure.
My current art practice is focused on an emerging synergy between painting and digital technology, creating interesting possibilities. The overall theme emerging is of ‘paradise lost’ where the material world evaporates into a physical or psychological disaster.
I'm interested in the development of a shifting paradigm which contrasts approaches of media and method with themes that deal with loss and alienation. This is being explored through a combination of diverse visual conventions from history painting to contemporary everyday imagery from the internet eg Tsunami 2004, Chinese ghost stories, William Blake's 'The Tyger'. The research firstly realizes the imagery in trying to reconcile art historical issues in terms of modernist and post-modernist conventions. Secondly it combines two different modes of perception - using contemplative and subjective traditional painterly methodologies with the more anonymous and detached digital modes. This is having a profound effect on the resulting paintings making them difficult to place contextually, and giving them an edge of uncertainty.
My ongoing research enables the active, clear and decisive exchange of ideas during tutorials and seminars when advising tutees about there own work and current issues. Engaging in research and scholarly activity creates the necessary platform for critical dialogue with the student body.
I am engaged in collaborative links eg Tate Liverpool in delivering second year option drawing modules combined with teaching members of the public in the same class; with Tate Modern curator Amy Dickson via a critical dialogue in relation to my own research.
I am working towards an exhibition at The Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport in 2009, alongside exploring other potential venues involving external collaboration and funding. |
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