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Suburban Monuments
Pitched roofs, clipped hedges, brick boxes – these are the shapes that define suburbia. Each family creates their own small world from a seemingly set palette of tiles and trims, trellis and topiary. Each plot forms part of a greater patchwork, pinned together by the use of these unquestioned motifs.
I have recorded these icons of suburban life with the reverence one might approach any object of great cultural significance. The standardised, centred framing of each subject also mimics the repetitive beat of the suburbs – something I am continuing to explore in a separate study, ‘Suburban Beautiful’.
2012
Digital Photography, Photography
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By the side of the silvery sea
Celebrating the Great British seaside holiday
2012
Visual Arts, Photography, Digital Photography
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A holiday you'll never remember
The beginning of a new series inspired by the trend towards "Staycationing" - holidaying at home in these times of national austerity. I'll be adding to this body of work throughout the year.
2012
Digital Photography, Photography
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Suburban Beautiful
Suburban Beautiful
2012
Photography, Visual Arts, Poetry
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Unnatural Landscapes
Our streetscapes are punctuated with reminders of the landscapes they replaced. Manmade adornments and ornaments that crudely commemorate something of what was. This ongoing series captures the kitsch, grotesque and naïve ways we recreate natural beauty in places it has been decimated.
2011
Digital Photography, Photography, Visual Arts
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Such a lot of world to see
These images are from a new series of alternative travel photographs. Holiday snapshots of inbetween places, unseen moments, unremarkable landmarks and forgotten detours. It's not the destination. Or the journey. It's the things you missed when you were looking the other way.
2012
Visual Arts, Photography, Digital Photography
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Memories Of Trees
My childhood home was one of the last houses before open bushland. A natural playground of BMX tracks and shoddy treehouses. When I was a teenager, the motorway came. Then the housing estates. Tree by tree, my childhood was felled. We moved on, deeper into the bushland. My parents thought they were outrunning suburbia. In fact they were egging it on. In part, this series records telegraph poles that surround my family home. These dead trees stand as mocking markers of what once was. Each pole a tombstone painted with an epitaph to a playground long gone.
2011
Digital Photography, Photography, Visual Arts
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The Spaces Between
Snow disguises the boundaries between spaces. Footpaths and roads merge. The lines between public and private are obscured. And ignored. But just as the white blanket covers some things, it draws particular attention to those left exposed. Things that may normally go unnoticed suddenly assume heightened importance, thrown into sharp relief against the crisp whiteness. These photographs capture a temporary streetscape. Before snow melts and suburban normality resumes.
2011
Digital Photography, Photography, Visual Arts
