The installation Dreamwork represents a surreal, imaginary world composed of a matrix of objects which represent our thoughts, repressed wishes, unfulfilled desires, and hidden details of our daily lives- the imprint of memory. 

The activity of dreaming (which can be described as the ‘poetics of sleep’) has provided me with a map of my unconscious, which I have sought to recreate in the exhibition space. Like the fantastical characters in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, the elements in the work relate to things in the ‘real’ world, but displaced from their original contexts, and combined with other objects they become freakish and uncanny- suspended in space, as if between sleep and wakefulness.

The photographic works in the exhibition relate to works comprised of assemblages of objects and materials which were made earlier in the year. Through the act of selectively photographing these creations and making large scale colour prints, I have taken them away from their original contexts but hopefully have transformed them into new pieces- I see them as offering a kind of window onto an imaginary, unconscious world.

The works were made using an instinctive, improvisational methodology with the aim of revealing the associations and hidden, ‘unconscious lives’ of objects and images.