I am interested in a research based approach to making paintings, and although my practice to date has encompassed making objects, sculptures, performances as well as paintings – I see my practice rooted within ‘painting’ and a ‘research based’ culture.

I have been making work that investigates various modes of iconoclasm and destruction within painting and art more generally. I am interested in using historical tropes and forms of painting, such as most recently egg-tempera Icon Paintings in the work Klaus Kinski Erlöser (2010) I faithfully recreated a small Byzantine Icon panel, complete with gold-leaf gilding and egg tempera on a solid wood support that transposed the central figure of Christ with that of Klaus Kinski. I also have made works that stress the object-nature of ‘painting’. Such as the series of works I created to destroy (Car bomb & St. Francis of Assisi) or the punch-bag portrait of Francis Bacon. In both these bodies of work the ‘style’ which the painting was made in and its form as an object correlated and became part of it’s subject – the smashed religious image or the boxing equipment correlating to historical iconoclasm and Bacon’s desires, sexuality, sadomasochism respectively. I am interested in how paintings and the ideas embodied within them can be touched, violated or idolized.

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  Roundhead II

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  Roundhead V

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  Oliver Cromwell Xmas tree

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  St. Francis of Assisi, The renunciation of his worldly possessions

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  Klaus Kinski Erlöser

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  Klaus Kinski Erlöser

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  Francis Bacon Punchbag

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