ULTRAMARINE

Ultramarine #3

Archive studio photographs on medium format film chemically and physically deteriorated using sea-water, sunlight and liquids that accelerate celluloid decay. The film's surface is cut, sometimes hole-punched or burned adding texture and depth.

The process explores overlapping processes in photography, painting and collage resulting in work that challenges these conventions and draws on pictorial representations of land, sea and sky from impressionism, abstraction and the romantic sublime. The name Ultramarine is derived from the Latin meaning 'beyond the sea’. My intention is to convey an experiential sense of landscape, both beautiful and terrifying. Like staring towards an uncertain horizon these viscous deep blue images evoke a sense of the unknown inviting a slow contemplation on time and decay.

Ultramarine #4

Ultramarine #1

Ultramarine #10

Ultramarine #13 (detail)

Ultramarine #13

Ultramarine #6