This exhibition is a story told using visual rhymes and transmutation of materials. In it, there is a special emphasis on sequencing that incorporates humor, repetition and contrast.  

Some works were inspired by the question; my mother is a textile artist, could I make a work on paper that used her language? How is a silk thread like an ink line?  

But I was also thinking; my father is a sculptor, how does his work relate to mine? How does a small drawing of a monumental sculpture collapse space?  

Then I looked back over the last few series I’ve completed and asked, how is the imagery in these works emphasized or contradicted by the materials they refer to? They are all ink on paper but recall mediums as varied as shadow puppets, tattoos, green screen image capture, sculpture made from sticks and bobbin lace. What can you say by how you pair them up and make them talk to each other?  

“Affinities” is a selection of works that flow from one to the next in a way that I hope is surprising, funny and engaging.