The ways that desire is performed and expressed is central to my practice. Through my compositions, I create a world for intimate moments and gestures that explore queerness, masculinity, gender and body image. The handling of paint has its own narrative potential - the thick textures, colour-filled space, and delicate marks are all active in the stories being created. I avidly collect images and draw upon film stills, archival imagery and sports photography. The archive becomes a site for imagining - in the process of painting, scenes become less specific to time and place and allude more toward an alternative reality. Drawing on the relationship that homosexuality and other non-normative identities have with modern and contemporary architecture, my paintings contain an element of fantasy and celebrate theatricality.

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