My work is about architecture that implodes / explodes. Structures that are in tension. To this end I work across several disciplines, though principally with photography and drawing.

The focus of my drawings is control and latent violence. Each time I begin I must first arrange the grid on which the object can then be formed; the exertion of control through the grid produces oppositional forces that must eventually collapse. I’m interested in that moment just preceding the implosion, or indeed the moment just afterwards: the split second when the nucleus is split, when the keystone of the construction no longer supports the balance of the whole. Tension derives from the attempt to stabilise and the inevitability of chaos — the constant potentiality of collapse. The controlled artifice of the drawing belies the fragile rigidity underlying its creation.

My photography is a somewhat separate body of work that addresses the same paradox: the architecture of statecraft where the image of stability veils the threat of decay. Surveillance, infrastructure, sovereignty. A nationwide site of construction.