The work that I either make or commission is grounded in my interest in the social and cultural context within which they are produced. The strategies I adopt are collaborative and range from taking approaches whereby the work in defined by the interests and concerns of the group I am working with and nurturing their creative ventures, through to responding to a social or spatial context and making an authored work that sets out to invoke curiosity and questioning.  For me the context always means involving people as collaborators and active agents in the making of the work and the making of meaning, therefore, the process of making the work and the way it is experienced by an audience is equally as important as the artwork that is produced.

Broadly speaking, I would refer to my practice as being ‘socially engaged’ and the role that I take is that of a collaborative cultural producer. As such I work as an artist, a commissioner and a curator.

I’m interested in making work that:

• makes the connections between art and society
• engages with people who generally have little time for, interest in and knowledge of art
• values participants and audiences as intrinsic and active contributors to the making of the work and the ‘making of meaning’
• opens up the potential to reveal stories, histories and concerns of people who are             unheard and under-mediated
• uses the very commonplace and ordinary
• situates art in everyday life and situations
• encourages people to gain a sense of value of what they can contribute to a cultural life, as both ‘consumers’ as ‘producers’
• raises questions about notions of ‘authorship’
• encourages openness and transparency in planning and actions
• explores relationships between projects in the public sphere and the gallery