I draw on mystical imagery, religious iconography, classical architecture and borrow from the visual language of church frescos and paintings, Christian relics and monuments to try to conjure a liminal space that can surpass conventional, western structures of time. Fascinated by Aboriginal models of time – ‘The All-Together Time’ – I wanted to create a space where everything could be felt all at once – the past, present, future, dreams, premonitions – to try communicating with and understand grief and loss. Though not a traditionally religious person, I draw on aspects of the religious experience as a representation of my relationship with and total devotion to art-making.

As is painted on to the internal walls of the church “Here’s to the hearts and the hands of the men that come with the dust and are gone with the wind”, an excerpt from Bob Dylans ‘song to woody’, the work is designed to initiate communion, memory, reflection and peace. It’s a place suspended in time and space, history and future, a place which lives beyond rational thought and where the dead can speak to the living.