Artists Statement
I work with my family photographs, video, drawings, objects and memories, often returning to them years later. I am interested in what happens when something is remembered, reconstructed or passed from one person to another, and how it changes along the way.
Both my parents were deaf and I grew up moving between spoken language and sign. I don’t sign much anymore and my BSL has become fragmented. Translation has become a way of thinking about my work, not just between languages, but between memory, image, object and gesture.
I often move between video and physical making. I might spend time in my archive, then leave the edit and make something with my hands before returning to the footage. The two processes inform each other.
I am interested in these points of transfer, where something moves from one form to another and is never quite the same again. The gaps, mistakes and uncertainties are not things I try to correct. They are where the work begins.
Both my parents were deaf and I grew up moving between spoken language and sign. I don’t sign much anymore and my BSL has become fragmented. Translation has become a way of thinking about my work, not just between languages, but between memory, image, object and gesture.
I often move between video and physical making. I might spend time in my archive, then leave the edit and make something with my hands before returning to the footage. The two processes inform each other.
I am interested in these points of transfer, where something moves from one form to another and is never quite the same again. The gaps, mistakes and uncertainties are not things I try to correct. They are where the work begins.