Formally, my work is diverse. The working medium always follows the idea. One can find re-occurring approaches, ideas and themes throughout my practice although I work across sculpture, photography, painting and installation.
I use unlikely combinations of sources and genres to highlight the ridiculous in life. There lies a constant engagement with apparently peripheral objects and situations, emphasising the unnoticed around us. I include a range of references that run from the everyday to the particular, linking art history and pop culture or touching on design, style and taste.
Taking inspiration from home improvement programmes (DIY SOS, Changing Rooms), I try to render valuable what seems dispensable or industrial, often adding a decorative element such as an ornamental quote or a materialistic quality to an object. (e.g. a hose pipe arranged into a Baroque shape, a classic wooden pallet covered in golden mirror).
My work looks at questions evolving around the subject of art fabrication and its commercial viability such as who is the author of an artwork. Artistically, my main concerns are the changing functionality of art and the transience of taste.
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Updated January 2011
DOB 1975 in Stuttgart, Germany.
At present living and working in London.
Currently practising visual artist: collaborations, freelance work, exhibitions and curatorial projects
2009