An interest in the psychology of religion and new age spirituality and the concepts of mortality, transformation and fetishisation that are part of their symbolic language has dominated my undergraduate studies and practice. Working across a broad range of mediums such as sculpture, assemblage, installation, photography, video and performance, I undertake a process of transforming banal primary materials into totemic and talismanic objects in order to speak to the uncanny and the otherworldly.

Through exploring concepts such as the fetishisation of objects, the activation and transformation of objects through performance and photography, and ideas relating to death and ornamentation, I am interested in how we try and rationalise the irrational and unknowable.

In this work, the objects made in the studio are combined to create an installation environment. Performance, as viewed in the video which is integrated into the installation, is used as a device to activate the objects and thus reconfigure and elevate them into ritualistic tools of shamanic transformation.