http://www.grammee.org.uk/www.grammee.org.uk/statement.html
In the last decade I have continued to explore performance-based forms of mark making and bodily notions of the gesture. My works and projects have been presented through a series of live art events and exhibitions in the UK and Europe, each occasion expressing my endeavour to seek drawing in its expanded form.
Since 2007 I have been a member of Bow Arts Trust (London) where, in addition to a studio, I have been granted a space by the Trust as a participant in its live/work scheme. After completing the MA at Chelsea College of Art & Design in 2005 my recent artistic activities have included: being short listed for the Open West art prize (2009), being invited to the UK traveling exhibition project Openended (2008), and a commission to create an innovative durational performance-drawing at the Making Sense conference supported by Jean Luc Nancy (2009).
Often, my approach for creating appears under a conceptual and graphic motif: gramme(e). Historically this term is in part derived from the philosophical “trace” (or tracing), and a more scientifically neutral form of measurement. To trace is akin to the act of giving evidence to modes of investigation and concentration. Moreover, neither the marks nor the evidence of the body in any of these works present a presence to what can be called thought, or drawing upon a sense of thought; for a trace equally pertains to the possibility of erasing as much as affirming the work of what some would hope to be an artistic intervention.
Themes such as Time and language appear directly in my forms of drawing, more to be exhausted than for their celebration.
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