Contemporary Art, Photography and Printing

My practice and research explore the idea of latency within photography-based images and installation, the research investigates how photographs can create the opportunity for narratives to emerge through the encounter between viewer, image, and exhibition space.

I use “latency” to describe the condition of narrative possibility: something that is not fully expressed or known but may become apparent through engagement. Rather than presenting a photograph as evidence of a complete or fixed story, my practice investigates the gaps between what an image shows and what remains absent and uncertain. These gaps allow viewers to form their own connections and interpretations. 

My practice centres on materially produced photographic images experimental photographic and print processes as well installation and presentation. I am interested in how qualities such as ambiguity, absence, surface, trace, sequencing and material transformation can afford opportunities for the latent narrative to emerge.

Installation extends this investigation by exploring how the relationships between photographs, objects, methods of presentation and exhibition space influence interpretation and how, scale, placement, distance and the viewer's movement through a space become part of the work.

Through iterative making, installation and viewer engagement, my research asks whether latency might provide a useful way of understanding the space between photographic representation and interpretation: a space in which meaning is neither entirely authored nor arbitrary, but emerges through encounter between artwork, context and viewer.