Profile
Profile
John is a multi media contemporary artist exhibiting nationally and specializing in model making and pinhole photography.
He is located in South Yorkshire and has a studio at Bloc in Sheffield.
“I have developed a way of working which is driven by a passion to search out and piece together fragments of information which record the passage of human life through time.
People leave behind them artifacts that bear traces of their existence, such as letters, fabrics, personal effects, films and photographs.
There is a haphazard and fragile nature to these surviving elements which in themselves do not form a narrative, but raise questions in the mind of the viewer about what has been lost in time and space.
My artwork and installations encourage the viewer to interact and relate the artwork to his life experiences in order to attempt to form a narrative.
I look back at a crumbling school exercise book which triggers searching thoughts about a distant period of time of which I have little recollection. It is this searching in the empty spaces of my mind that drives me rather than instant recall.
My work has developed to explore shared life experiences and has been extended by actively seeking resource materials through informal interview and drawing about aspects of their childhood.'
Please see archive section for images that relate to my work.