Untitled (Apple 11) Photography so I made the painting

so I made the painting about what books do rather than what they are

suggesting that loss can open unexpected forms of seeing

but essentially my work emerges from the physical process of painting

which explores the themes of displacement and alienation experienced by a family living in colonial Africa

and tracks

Untitled (Apple 11) Photography so I made the paintingThe apple emerged as a recurring form within an image minded process, as something close to a mantra. The apple provides a tool, an inroad to mark making, and in its simplicity could be a way to both reach into the collective consciousness and resist it, to mark it with a line that is mine. At the heart of this work lies a tension between image and material, the mechanical and the intimate. The apple is so embedded in the collective image bank that it