Context of my practice

I currently create architectural biro drawings inspired by the notion of ‘non-place’.  Drawing within the realms of fantasy, where the restrictions and confines of architectural reality cease to exist, fascinates me.  I make work, which is almost utopian in its appearance, whilst maintaining a degree of realism through precision and detail.  The biro allows me to make complex works, due to the fine nib of the pen.  The monochromatic nature of the biro is also instrumental in my work: enhancing the sense of the drawing existing as a memory or recollection of a place.  The manipulation of scale and forced perspective excites me, triggering my experimentation with a combination of varying architectural dimensions within my drawings.  This rejection of the conventional ‘rules’ an architect’s drawing, alludes further to the sense of escapism through art.  I like to think of my works as dream-like depictions of what was once observed as reality: continuously pushing the limits of architectural possibility.

Prompted by the architectural potential envisioned within Paper Architecture, combined with Mark Augé’s notion of ‘non-place’, I create imagined architectural visionaries.  The transitionary nature, and lack of value typically attached to architectural ‘space’ is central to my practice.  Acquiring insight from the built surroundings that, to me, exist as ‘space’, I manipulate the primary images in order to encourage a reinterpretation.  I then use photoshop in order to merge the primary photograph together, forming a re-imagined space. I depict the potentiality of an ‘ordinary’ built environment, drawing outside the bounds of realistic architectural creations.