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To provoke curiosity I experiment with both imagery and media . I work in  2 D (paint, collage, textiles e.t.c ) and 3D. Using junk materials (recycling) is a speciality. The work is stylised but recognisable and often there is a story. I draw a lot on humour and cross-culture. Recurring themes are : crowds, the catering industry,...
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At the moment I am developing a new body of work which focuses largely on halftone graphite drawings appropriated from Google Sky images of celestial objects, including stars, constellations and galaxies. I then force these images through my own mediations and interventions, photocopying the originals and reproducing these as meticulous detailed...
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My work is an investigation into the properties of my chosen materials and the process of painting. Artists who influence and inform my practice include; Ian Davenport, Jason Martin, Liam Gillick, Dan Flavin, Richard Wilson, Alexis Harding, Anish Kapoor and Robert Ryman. Some of the processes used within my work are - Use of poly-chromatic...
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My practice explores the human experience of digital technology. I am interested in how things enabled by digital technology such as digitised media content (music, films, books etc), instant communication, and always being online is affecting how we relate to history, how we anticipate the future and how we live today.I usually work with looped...
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I paint and draw compulsively. My earliest memories are of drawing by holding a pencil, making circular motions and filling the page with the shiny graphite. As a child I would collect hundreds of my scribbles, storing them neatly so that I could look through them again. Drawing was especially important to my experience and development, for as a...
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ConceptsAmy Houghton's practice involves the use of animation, video and porcelain to explore the hidden and revealed histories and stories related to old objects in particular old textiles and photographs placed in the context of our lives in the present. She explores how we use and read antique textiles and photographs as stimuli for...
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In our work as LOW PROFILE, Hannah Jones and I are drawn to tasks which are unfeasibly large, seemingly ridiculous and on the edges of sense and nonsense. Our concerns are human scale, they are based on the specific, particular fixations and everyday details of our lives – in an attempt to reclaim things that would otherwise be overlooked or...
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