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Introduction
artist.photographer

My practice to date is as a photographer working largely within the subject area of the landscape. I have used photography to interrogate the construct and conception of the landscape as a palimpsest on which to build and reflect ideas around society, politics, economics and culture as well as offering commentary on our relationships with our environment and surroundings. I am also interested in history and the representational relationships of photography, memory and experience. Most of my work has been using large scale colour images usually made with a view camera. Many of my images incorporate texts within the actual image.

Much of my work has involved a dialogue between image and text and I am interested in the ways that meanings and interpretations can be questioned and developed through the association of the various elements and layers of the work. I am also interested in working with narrative, sequential and other display and distribution contexts apart from exhibition such as publication. I am interested in photography within the context of public area and have worked on a number of public art projects and commissions. Audiences and their engagement are a central concern for me and the need for my work to connect with an audience has been critical in informing the aesthetic strategies that I have followed from my early billboard projects in the late 80's through to more recent publishing and exhibition projects.

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