‘Artificial Incubator’, 2014

Installation, Painting, Mixed Media, Dimensions Variable 

The idea of the work behind ‘Artificial Incubator’ was inspired by one of Bill Culbert’s works of the light sculpture, ‘Cubic Projection’ (1968) which was a series of drilled pinholes in a black fibreglass sphere, internally fitted with a lamp. It was as if electricity was used to change the image from light to shadow holes on the walls in the darkness of the gallery space. It was like a reflection of itself.

This work is created by installation, in which painted images naturally appear on glass by a kind of optical illusion effect from the light through the holes into the plinth. The transformation of the ambiguous reflected images has now become a very prominent feature in my work, which occurs as the audience engages with the polished medium, water and light installations before them. The work conveys no object or substance in any fixed state or with any permanent definition, identity or order; everything is transforming and morphing into something else; everything is a mutant and a hybrid. So the work represents a question that what we consider ‘natural’ or ‘artificial’ or rather ‘natural’ or ‘manufactured’ and how these poles are being progressively blurred.