‘Life’ is my first dip into sharing more about the artist behind the art. I have always been vocal with others on how important it is to recognise and celebrate the person behind the work, and how it is a combination of the viewer’s interpretation and the artists intention that creates any type of story for a piece, whether a story exists to begin with or not…

This online exhibition is also the first of three different projects that explore this theme of the ‘artist behind the art’ and lifts the veil if you will a little more on myself as an artist. Like most of us, I often don’t take my own advice, and while I enjoy learning more about artists whose work I enjoy, I seldom share anything about myself. Whether it be down to my ‘real job’ or whatever, I am a fairly private person. However, I love to create, and to create with intention and meaning. Oftentimes I feel as though I am the only one getting that meaning, and in some ways, that is what this is all about. Because whether you are an artist who likes to be out there and share everything about yourself, or one that just wants to let your work do the talking, one thing I think we all have in common is that we all would like to have our work be understood a little better.

‘Life’ is a collection of images that are a modern take on ‘the mundane’. We all have a phone with us most of the time, and what is more personal than that device sometimes? ‘Life’ is a curated collection highly edited moments taken from my phone over time. Things I needed to remember, thought looked cool at the time, forgot about an hour after capturing, sometimes merely just a screenshot. I will let you draw your own conclusions and interpretations, but ‘Life’ is not necessarily intended to be a vehicle to learn more about my life, as it is more of an insight into how I view life and some of the challenges in art and phones/social media these days.

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Life

Life

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