The artist has no materials (16 acts of making)

The artist has no materials (16 acts of making) is a moving image work that references the artist’s body and the making of work as the subjects of simultaneously liberating and self-conscious acts. The gestures are humourous, sensual, unsure, determined and open-ended theatrical notations of a private-come-public performance towards exhibition.

The work offers up a succession of mimetic improvisations as choreographies that address the field and focus of the camera lens as a spatial dimension unto itself and relational device for the viewers gaze, the architectural boundaries of studio, the internal imagination of thought and idea conception, and the influence of other bodies at work (other artists, the mechanic shed next door and their radio playing, the sound of leaves falling on the tin roof and the call of a magpie). The artist has no materials… is about movement, being in flux.

- exhibition text by the artist.