Q. Photography is often understood as something that documents or preserves a moment. Your work seems more interested in transforming the photograph itself. At what point did the image become a material rather than simply something to produce?

A. Image tangibility edges a little differently into my works with each piece I make… leading me towards these transformations of image back into material.  I have a real inclination to work physically with the materials that interest me, as well as a tendency towards sculptural outcomes. I think there will always movement within the way in which my image-based works consider materials…. balancing between a kind of hidden behind-the-scenes intimacy, and a more physical front-of-house presentation. 

Q. Your practice sits somewhere between photography, sculpture and installation. Do disciplinary boundaries still feel relevant to you, or have they become something to work against?

A. Yes, I still think a lot about disciplinary boundaries, and personally still find them relevant. But mostly in order to reference and reflect my works against other artists and conversations. I feel it helps me gain a sense of positionality in the world of artmaking and to find those unfrequented interdisciplinary areas that excite me.

Q. Industrial materials, fabrication techniques and construction methods recur throughout your work. What keeps drawing you back to those systems and surfaces?

A. Monochromatically, the textures of industry are wonderful to investigate, document and reproduce. They feel to me… surreal and otherworldly. Producing truly uncommon topographies – ones that I love to throw under the microscope.  Overall, industry is an interesting wider picture to gradually research through practice. An inevitable in our fabricated world… that will need to continue shift and mould as our awareness of its impacts do too.

Q. Experimentation seems fundamental to your practice. What are you currently investigating and pushing further in your work?

A. I’m always trying to conjure up new printing processes in order to work towards fresh kinds of photographic outcomes…. But just as consistently I’m daydreaming of finishing touches…. often visualising framing or installation styles for these new image-based works. This string of thought always travels with me during the making process, rather than after.

Q. Is there a question that continues to follow you from one project to the next, even if the work itself changes?

A. Certainly, I think the common endeavour that carries through all my works is an attempt to stretch photographed images into different kinds of positions. Positions within the world of contemporary art, as well as new stances alongside what the image itself is actually documenting.

Q. Every artist develops a way of recognising when a work is complete. What tells you it's time to stop making changes?

A. I’ve previously been quite straight forward with knowing when a work is complete – as it will come to a fairly precise point, often the exact one that I had been picturing for it. But in recent years, my works have been stretching over longer time spans, and more frequently ending in places that I hadn’t first imagined. I’ve found it’s a much nicer openness to have, and I hope to continue to find myself nicely surprised by where my works end up and when they feel finished.

Q. Outside the studio, what kinds of images, objects or environments quietly influence your practice?

A. Small everyday moments catch me off guard…. Often when I’m not thinking about my work at all… I get sprung with something that sparks an explosive chain of thoughts linking to my practice. Things like uncommon intersections of materials, naturally formed textures, half-finished processes, or public scale infrastructure can ignite these chains. Sometimes just seeing something out of the corner of my eye, or catching an everyday object in a new light is enough. 

Q. What's been playing in your headphones when making lately?

A. Seemingly quite distant from my outcomes…. But I’ve been listening to a lot of reggae and slow dub music lately…… This is far from exclusive in my headphones though. It’s always a bit of a washing machine in there