"...Drawing underpins my practice, it provides me with the most direct way to articulate my ideas or respond to something that moves me. Drawing takes on different roles whether immediate observation, the furtive scrawled drawings made of strangers on tube trains or as a means to work out and unravel the structures that begin as mental maps leading to my larger scale video, film and sound works. At certain times drawing seems to me to be a way of weaving a matrix of lines to attempt to harness or cradle an experience or moments in time. Drawing from direct observation can also define the duration of time spent looking and become a record of how I look at something, somewhere or someone. What I think is revealed when drawing, using a photograph as the conduit between myself and the memory of an experience, is the time spent thinking and reminiscing about a scene or individual. This carries with it a double-edged sword; pinning down what has happened but inevitably distorting, re-constructing, re-inventing and even hi-jacking the original past. I am intrigued by the desire to struggle against an inevitable sense of loss. I'm really affected by the drawing and painting work of Alberto Giacommetti - the difficulties of pinning something down in space; how he would alter and revise, time and again, in an attempt to harness a figure in space..."

"...Different ways of tracing over a photograph has become important to me as there seems to be the possibility of fusing a whole series of different times in one image. The original pace of time in the environment I was in, whether it was the street, an airport or a railway station, the sense of time the individual was experiencing when I photographed them. There is also my own levels of adrenaline, apprehensive and excitement when taking the photograph, the fraction of time of the camera's shutter, the time to make the print, the time spent carefully making the scratched drawing and filling my mind with speculation about who this person might be. Finally the new time fabric that the viewer is invited to engage with in the showing space when these fragmentary elements are woven together..."