INHABIT

Oriel Q, Narberth 2009

“In the time I’ve been making this work there have been some momentous shocks to the financial establishment along with an increased awareness of green issues. How will we re- evaluate our condition, our ontology? How will we align our attitudes to consumerism and the cult of ‘things’? There seems to be a drive towards simplicity, a fundamental need for meaningfulness. What is important and how will we keep ourselves intact?

When I was a child, if we hurt ourselves my mum would tear a strip of cotton rag and tie it around the wound – it was called ‘Tying a bunny on it’. It seems now, when I think back on it such a simple and beautiful gesture.

INHABIT is concerned with the minutiae of the domestic. It tells stories about the little ghosts that inhabit the objects that we gather around ourselves. Beautiful, absurd, familiar; they are saturated with the memories and beliefs that we keep with us and that, in many ways keep our sense of ‘self’ intact. This work is about the comfort of collecting, arranging and repeating things – the nuts and bolts of everyday personal narrative punctuated by the tragedies, conflicts and celebrations of our lives.”