My recent work in Fine Art indicates a growing involvement with architectural space. The work has become increasingly material-based, referencing the skills of craftsmen. Before commencing a site-specific work I spend time with the people that have been involved with the immediate environment. This dialogue is both stimulating + encouraging. For me contact between artist + audience is crucial. I research + record in detail all aspects of the location using drawings, text, film + photography - this information is then ordered into a piece of work. The work often joins salvaged materials with new. I have developed a system of collecting, collating + storing materials for future use. Although the work is site-specific, it is ephemeral in nature; it is strategically placed in corridors, stairs, + rooms dealing with transient + stable spaces. Control is achieved by understanding the crafts which I employ e.g. gilding, this means in most cases learning something of the craft involved. My work is about placement, I search for the ability to organise materials in elemental ways + set up poetic relationships within the subject. Although there is often an act of uncovering, there is also re-establishment + working with an idea of the future. Historically traditional disciplines of fine art (painting + sculpture) were bound to architecture, a relationship largely severed during the Renaissance. My intention is to combine the two disciplines, to work within the ‘gap’ + search for poetic fusions, using the potential of material to produce meaning within an architectural context. Urban + Architectural design is approached by myself, the artist, as a series of spaces. Each space will attract its own response from the viewer. Both internal + external space completes the work. You will experience, once built, lightness strengthened by the weight of existing structures + the silence of certain spaces, so giving control + authority to the piece as a whole.