Statement

Living in a time of massive change is very unsettling. Other turbulent times in history must have felt like this to the people involved at the time – this is our turn now. It’s very easy to paint an apocalyptic picture of this convergence of huge forces and their effects – techno-feudalism, surveillance capitalism, inequality, patriarchy, racism, pandemics, and the biggest of them all – climate change.

But science and technology are now enabling us to discover astounding levels of complexity and detail at microscopic levels that we couldn’t have begun to conceive of until recently – the worlds of microbiomes both inside us and across the living world, microrrhyzal networks, our immune and nervous systems, the networks of neurons in our brains.  And this process, along with the metaphor of Indra’s net  is helping us see that indigenous knowledge is also an integral part of the whole picture.

Politics and Science currently control the decisions made that have power over us, but art and artists play a core role in enabling people to express what they see and how they feel about the things that matter most.  Art allows the communication of complex ideas that are not always easy to put into words. I work across disciplines to explore themes of inequality, health, displacement, and migration, and I draw on fine art, visual media, and social-scientific data, and utilise a wide range of materials to question the roles power and money play in shaping the world around us. 

the ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently. David Graeber