For my series Disciplined Spaces, I revisited the three schools I attended during my formative years, between the ages of seven and 19. Whilst approaching the architecture as autobiography, I also analyse and explore the psychology of these buildings in regards to more universal concerns, therefore allowing the viewer to directly engage with the work and to evoke common histories. The photographs reference a universal template of education, childhood and adolescence. At the same time, they underscore the ideologies of dis...
This piece was produced during my residency in Iceland in 2007.I repeatedly visited the former US military base in Keflavik:Despite the fact that geo-political history feeds into and also greatly infl...
History exists within the individual and
the individual exists within history. The
everyday is infused with an epic dimension.
(J.Lingwood, The Epic and the Everyday)
Throughout my work, several inter-related and recurring strands of interest can be discerned: the notion of boundaries both physical and psychological; the superficial calmness that pervades so many aspects of the everyday but which belies underlying tensions; the infusion of people’s day-to-day existence with the qualities of the theatrical and the cinematic; the manner in which we experience our surroundings, how we... [Read More]
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