I am a Fine Artist and I create immersive installations through painting as I reconfigure space. I invite the viewer to question what space they exist in when looking at my work. How did I get here? And how can I leave? These create uneasy atmospheres, speaking to the uncanny. I expand my practice through technology such as video projection and A.I. enhanced animation. These ‘shifts’ of perception relate to constant evolutions of technology and I synergise this with traditional painting. I often take inspiration from the dramatic use of chiaroscuro, which is highly theatrical. As a result, my paintings themselves become the performance and through curation, I become an architect of painting. Sci-fi acts an influence in its exploration of the sublime – transported and paralleled into our own realities. Visually, I am inspired particularly from ‘old-school’ 80s films, for instance ‘Flight of the Navigator’. I am interested in superimposed qualities and the collaging between physical realities and digital ones is an important aesthetic in my work. There is at once a sense of graphic flatness in planes of colours and hyperreal depth in the detailed paint application. The CGI ‘fake-ness’ fascinates me and adds a sense of falseness to my own work. I also examine the philosophies of ‘Hauntology’ in relation to trauma and my own practice, as well as ‘Object-Oriented Ontology’ through my unusual portraiture.