SAFE SPACE

Safe Space is a body of work completed in 2022 that represents a range of explorations that considered the question of inaccessible shared space, where boundaries are partial, embedded with information and able to support/ suspend objects.

These works were accompanied by research into the context and use of the grid through Western art history. In particular Rosalind Krausse's seminal essay 'Grids', formed a foundation of critical thinking on the direction in my practice. The works of female artists, who directly engage with the grid as a format were of particular interest to me such as Ruth Asawa, Agnes Martin and Hilarie Mais, as well as prominent (male) figures from the Western canon such as Sol Le Witt and Antony Gormley.

These experimentations consider simultaneous spatial porosity and exclusion, the extension of the work through projected line and the ability of the forms to hold space, extend limits, provide care and respond to site.