Artists Statement

To be an artist, one need only be aware of the ways the world is working and you are working in it. Within this ii is, in my opinion, imperative to keep asking those questions - what's it supposed to mean? how could it be misused? how can it have further value than that given it? These are some of the questions that arise when approaching and resisting the seduction of the object.
Like many artists of my culture and gender, I have looked at the statutory demands of many objects in one environment, and considered their obligation to perform in another environment. Sometimes in the psyscho-social, as in "Straight Women Must Stop Falling for Me", where viewers were invited to consider the trappings of Xmas in relation to the Virgin Mary, and the eroticism of the iconic form, within the contemporary questions of the place of prophylactics in the fight against Aids and HIV and especially the media myth that straight women were not susceptible as it was in the day, known as "The Gay Mans Disease", among other things; and sometimes in the greener environmental world as in "Whatever appears to have come in from the outside......"taking such iconic landscapes as the Welsh valleys, Las Vegas and the Nevada Desert, The Remarkables in Queensland, New Zealand and with just overlaying slide film manifesting further indictments of land disappearance and use.
Always engaged in the ideas of the philosophical struggle within the world of the sciences and the arts, I have now chosen to spend the next few years, really concentrating and working with issues involved in the imaging of the body through technologies that aesthetesize the body to such an extent that oftentimes we stare down the abyss of meaningless pain. The language of war becomes similar to that of household cleaning products, and the rhetoric of the medical world becomes that of fashion and trends. Ultimately, you're health depends on what you look like, therefore it becomes essential to go and be screened.
"Tetralogy" emerges from a long period of non-making and thinking more critically about how aritsts I have admired and seen over the last couple of decades have approached these ever more complicated and strategic technologies within their own art practice. Some of these artists were talked about in my Masters thesis entitled "Artists use Medical Imaging Technologies. What of I.T.?" Crucial here was an investigation into the role of Information: Information crucially given through these images and the information shared through these images. The most complex to read, due to the very specialised medical language, is not necessarily made any easier by a highly ornamented image. 'Tetralogy' not only examines these information methods, but specifically looks at the theatricality of the medical world of imaging, and the components that make up a suitable anatomy for a peaceful world at war.