‘Honey, you’re caving in.’

"In painted choreographed mounds of meat, my recent work speaks to analogies of the body as canvas and paint as flesh. The confronting size and painstaking details of these ‘grotesquely beautiful’ oil paintings, are a humbling reminder of our own mortality and ephemerality, as ultimately meat and animals ourselves. Meat steps forward in my work as witness to our humanity and human-hand in natural resource exploitation, interlocked with our search for existential meaning through aesthetic experience. Immersed in these large works, the viewer is made increasingly aware of the act of spectatorship as embodied within a complex system of flesh contemplating itself- conscious meat. Exuding its raw potential, we are reminded of meat’s origins and our dissipating relationship with the natural world as part of the Anthropocene age."