“In the video work that I make I like to experiment with analog signals. Using VCRs, VHS, analog synthesisers and a surveillance video camera to create feedback loops. I have recently acquired an old colour bar generator from an old television station and began to play with the unit to see it’s effects.
By connecting all this tech together I am able to play with the analog video feedback loops and mix various signals using “special effects” video synthesizers from the 1990s. Sometimes during these live experiments, I find myself with a composition that gives me feelings of landscapes. I take video captures of my favourite scenes. In these video loops I start to envision other worlds made up of RGB analog signals and play with ideas of “traditional” landscapes in art.”

“Gritty urban landscapes and savage folktales inspire me. Somewhere between Where the Wild Things Are, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Princess Mononoke. In these tiny pockets of time and space, revealed by the overlapping of fantastical and real worlds, half-human/half-animal/half-flora creatures consort.

Contrasts compel me. Colour and texture, form and surface. Midnight blue versus neon yellow, rough asphalt versus tender rain. The juxtaposition of two colours, or two textures, that do not go together, creates something different. These unexpected parallels, diversions, this skidding, offer multiple paths to explore. Spontaneity takes over; a narrative imposes itself. An atmosphere, a stolen breath, a stilled movement.”

“I was immediately drawn to Gigi Wenger’s sculptural pieces, seeing them in frozen animation. The colours and glazes reminded me of moss on the floor of a forest, growing on the forms of what could be magical creatures traversing surreal landscapes of other worlds. With my video work I wanted to create animated landscapes, experimental backdrops and almost a sci-fi context for Gigi’s work to explore. The analog moon shines down and guides them on their journey.”

“Vanessa Rieger’s video inspired me to create a creature/landscape (rock, mountain, troll) over which her colours and light could flow.
Her technology versus my geology. A shape that allows glazes to drip and run and bubble. Textures on a 3-dimensional form. Illuminated.
The sculpture was hand-built in dark clay and then covered in multiple glazes, fired at cone 6.”