statement:

As an artist you're always asked to describe your work in writing: 'What do you do', 'What's your work about'?

In a way these are 'big' questions, but they are also a bit daft. Sometimes I like to tell people that my work is about 'magic', the kind of magic that you can't talk about, but that's kind of rude.

Pretty simply, my work is kind of about magic. I am interested in the ineffable experience that is created through certain kinds of contemporary art, specifically immersive aural installation art.

So, what is ineffable? The ineffable defines the kind of experiences that we have that are unexplainable through words, and therefore they are talked about as 'the unutterable'. My work as an artist is focused on creating these kinds of experiences using sound, light and architectural space, all with a minimalist aesthetic.

I am also currently a practice-led PhD candidate at the Glasgow School of Art and my research is focused on the creation of the ineffable experience. In addition I try to get greater clarity about how both artists and viewers can achieve a greater understanding of their own ineffable experiences.

But yeah, at the end of the day, if my mum asks me what she should tell her friends I am doing, I tell her to just say I am making magic art that is hard to talk about.

These are some of the people who have influenced me:

Robert Irwin

James Turrell

Donald Judd

Richard Serra

Uta Barth

Gas

William Basinski

My Bloody Valentine