Face and Tape

This is series of images was part of an experimentation with cheap make-up effects.

Make-up For Girls

With this series of images i wanted to play with my own interest in make-up for tv and film combined with a more unhealthy personal interest in sex and violence. the images act as a platform of fantasy which is at the level that i engage with most works of art.

Make-up Drawings at Centro Bar

An Extract 'Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man' 14/03/08

I became concerned with the idea of performance as an expression itself. in this performance i am reading out an extract from Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by Joyce. the extract is a from a mass reading, it evokes images of fire and brim stone. The act of reading such an intense piece of writing was an adrenaline provoking experience in front of a live crowd, it tested my hubris as a performer.

Frozen Chicken 07/05/08

I was really trying to play with audiences expectations in Frozen Chicken, the set didn't allow the audience to have much room to view the performance so it became very claustrophobic in the performance area and the audience became a part of the performance by the way they had to move out of the way from stray pieces of chicken and blood being spilled in to where they were sat.

Frying Onions 01/03/08

Frying Onions was performed in front of a small audience who had to sit and endure an hour and a half of chopping and frying onions. The motion became incredibly repetitive and the smell became so intense it was painful to the senses. Food became an important part of my work because of this idea that in certain contexts it can be revolting. As a performer however I was experimenting with costume and location, I made this piece in a domestic kitchen as oppose to a studio or white performance space or gallery. I played with the atmosphere of the location, the kitchen was very dimly lit, this was an element that really added to the audiences experience as it would have become very difficult to watch the actual performance through the onion smell and the little light.

Eggs, Bacon and Milk 01/02/08

These images are documentation of a video performance piece where a small crowd throw eggs, bacon and milk at an isolated individual, a type of emasculation. I was exploring the use of masks as a narrative tool, but rather than further the narrative I made a confusing mixture of masks with references to the KKK, cartoons and traditional folk or pagan imagery, and although seemingly none of these departure points have much in common, they can all however have the capacity to be very violent and enjoy the violence that they offer culture. I wanted to retain something both enigmatic and powerful and leading in the documentation of my performance work. I find still images not only to be immediately arresting but they allow the viewers mind to fill the gaps between images, they can create their own idea of the performance without being fed the whole thing which may sometimes be less provoking or dull.