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I am concerned with real visual things and not visual interpretations of verbal ideas and pretensions. The motivations and context for my work are not institutional. I do not seek to tell a story and I give titles to my work because it is a practical necessity. The conceptual "reason to be" of my work has always been some aspect of its physical presence.

My work is about the feeling of tangible experience and our elemental responses to movement and colour. These basic responses carry with them a complex notion of relative judgements. The way light moves over a surface or a breeze travels through a cornfield, the sudden spasm of a deadly fish or the hypnotic coil of a snake.

I have made work with actual or implied movement for over thirty years. For a period this included animated films. The work I currently make is wall mounted. It moves with the breeze and spasms and quivers when charged by an electromagnet. It is intended to move with the unpredictability of something living.
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