This series explores the remote and fragile continent of Antarctica. A place which has received a lot of attention recently due to global climate change. The photographs are contextualized in these debates, however, the focus of this series is to investigate an emotional relationship to place.
On a very personal level, I use this body of work to hone and understand my own visual language. Having lost my father a few years ago, I returned to my photographic practice as a way to heal and to try to reconnect on an emotional level. As he was also a photographer and my creative mentor throughout my formative years, we shared an appreciation for abstract photography, something that he would refer to as 'the space between'.
To enhance my understanding of visual expressionism, my father introduced me to artforms beyond lens-based practice, which have always represented an important source of inspiration. At a very young age, I remember my father taking me to see the various exhibitions, often filled with paintings by the great Expressionist painters from history, and he would ask me to select which piece in the room I felt particularly drawn to, and why. As a child, my reasoning must have been uninformed and jejune: however, this is an exercise I continue to carry out to this day. This routine and my relationship with creative practice have been vital to the formation of my own aptitude as a visual artist.
My photographic career has brought me back to Antarctica several times over the past few years, having first visited it with my parents over a decade ago. I've used the experience to create photographs that explore 'the space between' and this collection of images are meant to be both representational and abstract, a form of storytelling which uses photography but draws extensively on other art forms.
