I feel that my role as an artist relies heavily on my other creative roles as collector and researcher. In 2006 I was awarded a travel scholarship to travel around the coast of England looking at seaside resorts, particularly Victorian Pier resorts. The elements of my work which lend themselves to the ephemeral, the artifact, decoration, craft and leisure all began to click into place. The trip was a collection of sources both visual and physical. The visual extravaganza of chintz in the Seaside B+B, the thrill of finding an postcard image of giant structures that once jutted out onto the sea when now there is only an empty expanse. Like these structures I don’t like my work to last, only to exist in artifact and memory. I find the thought of my pieces being experienced again and again deathly boring; they should crystallize upon completion and from that moment on slowly fade away back into the architecture.

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