In Exhibitions
As a child growing up in the Sixties, I consumed a steady diet of 1960s Sci-Fi television. From the age of five to eleven, I watched classic shows, such as: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, Wild Wild West, Land of the Giants and Star Trek. Also in my diet were reruns of the Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon movie serials from the 1930s and 40s that were fueling my childhood imagination. I’m sure that consumption, in some latent way, now contributes to influencing my work.
The shows were ripe with allusions to eroticism, populated with archetypal goddesses, warriors, alien beings, monsters, fantastical plants, robots, ray guns and gadgetry of another Time, another world — perhaps even another species. All of it soaked up into my subconscious fabric, well saturated to the point of seeping, and is now expressed through my object-led process from which my sculptures emerge.