Artist Statement

My practice explores how fear based media is used to manipulate viewers, through both social media and various other forms of news sources. I question the intentions of news media through my photography, collage, video, sound, and installation work. Overdramatising news is a method of attracting viewers at their own expense, my own work plays on this using methods of exaggeration such as collaging repetitive imagery and casting shadows to highlight the negative effects that frequent exposure to disaster reporting can have on the viewers mental health. I grew up exposed to the media, watching television in my living room, but now more than ever technology is so readily available to us through mobile phones it can seem impossible to escape the clutches of the media. Mimicking this invasion of the home, I like to bring aspects of the domestic into some of my works by hanging photographs and mirrors in installation spaces,