As an artist my natural inclination is to think in terms of physicality and 'things' in 'space'. I have a long-standing research interest in the thinking behind objecthood in 'sculpture' and how Speculative Realist ideas can reanimate this thinking – put simply: how does the contemporary condition affect our consideration of objects and the spaces those objects might dwell in? I work in between photography and sculpture, however, for the last five years, I have focused on photography through my means of making a living as the black and white printer and technician in a commercial lab.

Since the summer of 2022 I have been travelling across the UK, spending time with medieval reenactors, making photographs. In this body of work I wish to blur and compress the space between history and myth. Combining Speculative Realist ideas and a ‘classic’ photo-documentary style, I question the nature of the space historical reenactors inhabit. In turn, the linearity of historical narratives and the ontology of objecthood are challenged. My work may serve as an allegory to our present condition: navigating the truth amid widespread digital documentation of the real, the falsified and the imaginary.