Artist statement: In an age of endless self-imaging, this work is part of a wider practice that aims to explore the boundless new potentials for performing and framing the self that emerge on the stage of the digital image.
Using readymade and everyday materials, characters are assembled through costumes that simultaneously conceal, distend and abstract the body. These figures call attention to their surfaces, exploiting the texture, colour and shine of their artificial second skins.
Each image revels in the spectacle and material excess that is central to a camp aesthetic with each regenerative act of concealment resisting clear categorisation in a queering of the represented body through sculptural and photographic malformations.
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Also known as Giclee prints or bubble-jet prints, pigment ink-jet prints are generated by computer printers from digital or scanned files using dye-based or pigment-based inks. A series of nozzles spray tiny droplets of ink onto the paper surface in a precise pattern that corresponds to the digital image file. In dye-based prints the ink soaks into the paper, whereas in pigment-based prints the ink rests and dries on top of the paper surface.
Whilst the term is broad, pigment ink-jet prints have come to be associated with prints produced on fine art papers. They are the most versatile and archival method of printing available to photographers today. A wide variety of material on which an image can be printed with such inks are available, including various textures and finishes such as matte photo paper, watercolour paper, cotton canvas or pre-coated canvas.
