I also create more traditional, symbolic pieces, often housing animals inside manmade objects, suggesting that space for nature is shrinking and highlighting our increasingly complex relationship with the environment.

Inspired by a variety of formative interests; evolutionary biology, art history, myths and legends, religious iconography, dystopian fiction, film and philosophy, and a keen sense of how human activity is affecting the natural world, each sculpture tells its own unique story.

“Marshal McLuhan wrote,  ‘The medium is the message’, and my chosen medium, taxidermy, is inherently existential. What better medium to express themes of life and death, beauty and horror, meaninglessness and absurdity? Death and life are my medium, materially and philosophically. It is no surprise to me that over the years all my formative passions for philosophy, art and biology have filtered and distilled into my current practice, in which I have created a self contained universe that reflect these themes.”

“More specific themes that recur for me involve questions regarding religion. For example, does God exist? In a secular world how do we create meaningful lives for ourselves and overcome our fear of death? The environment and our relation to the natural world. For example, how do we experience the looming existential threat of climate change and ecological collapse? How do we view other sentient species? Do animals have free will or souls? What are the ethical implications of using animals as ‘entertainment’? And, are we alone in the universe? For example, is life on Earth statistical improbability on a colossal scale and is this a unique cosmic condition?”

“By presenting work that is both complex and challenging I hope to encourage introspection as to the nature of existence, our purpose, fears, assumptions and societal reflection.”

I graduated from Goldsmiths University with a first class honours degree in Fine Art in 2001.

All the materials I use have been ethically and legally acquired, usually roadkill and pets that have died of natural causes.