ARTIST STATEMENT
I am currently studying Fine art at Nottingham Trent University in my third year, i create installation and sculptures often incorperating taxidermy, osteolagy and entomology. I also work as a freelance taxidermist and commission based artist. I am also a freelance taxidermy tutor please contact me at [email protected] for details.
My influences are first and foremost everything I see, feel and experience, but I've always particularly loved the critical art of museum layout and beauty of natural history. My passion lies in anatomy, the macabre and the eternal bond of life and death. I am underpinned by past eras and styles; I have always been intrigued by glamour, antiquities and the whimsical. I'm drawn in by the captivation of beauty and wealth and fascinated by the ideology of normality in society from different people’s perceptions. I am always drawn to the macabre objects in life; I find beauty in the mundane and the strange. I am captivated by suspense and magic, freezing time and suspending the inevitable. I find my work settles in-between reality and the imaginary, working with humans naivety and innocence. I often use taxidermy and bone within my work as I feel the beauty of life should not be wasted in death, but it is extremely important to me that all my animals die of natural causes before use within my work.