Why (the Site of) Drawing Matters...to me.

I am an independent artist and practice-based researcher examining how humans experience their environment and the everyday. Through my focus on ‘pathic aesthetics’, my site-responsive drawing practice engages the atmospheric, material, temporal and corporeal aspects of sites in developing the work.

These pathic responses in all their complexity: diversity, directness, universality and presentness; are evidence of how humans are both subject to, and affected by, the world that surrounds them.  By paying close attention to the atmospheres, resonances and material affects immanent to diverse environments my hope is to create a 'Holding Space' for something intermediate, something in and between us, a space where we can pay attention to the here and now which is always and already happening.
  
A site maybe an art space or a non-art space or a rural or urban environment.
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