The language used within areas of research across the arts, sciences and humanities has traditionally been inward facing. Experimental approaches to drawing can diversify this language and offer a collaborative vernacular to help describe the complex social topics of our time. Visual mark making creates bridges between disciplines, draws parallels, redefines terms, and expands traditional research modes into a broader, inclusive dialogue.
My practice investigates how material mark making, collaboration and new technologies can be used to create a dialogue around heritage. For me heritage is a contact zone through which contemporary issues can be bought into questions. Drawing is a way to combine material mark making, process, participatory methodologies and site. It is a form of excavation, through which universal topics of memory, home, belonging, and our diverse relationships with the landscape are brought to the surface.