Creating collage that tells stories with a contemporary narrative, the focus of my artistic practice involves using free association techniques to depict images from my unconscious mind and playfully build colourful, figuartive imagery 

Each collage is created from a single source of imagery which adds subtext to the story behind each artwork. Portraying themes of equality, and reference music and musical subcultures, examples of this way of working include depictions of Adam and Eve made from bits of vice.com, Illuminati inspired dreamscapes made from bits of The Mars Volta records and portraits of The Queen made from bits of punk memorabilia

Other musical memorabilia also forms the basis of important artworks in my portfolio, and in cases such as commissions from bands, each part of a collage can be read as a playlist of the music listened to while the collage was being created

Progressing my collage artworks into three dimensions, I now have more tools at my disposal. In addition to the loosely assembled imagery that contains jpg artifacts for texture, collage pieces that are stretched and folded through 3D space are added for depth and movement

In contrast to the more usual clean, digital world of three dimensional renders, my 3D artworks are impulsive and expressive, championing the human psyche and accessing unconscious associations between myself and my source materials

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