My work orientates around the people in my life; I engage with family relationships and histories using video, text and photography to expose the details I have uncovered about my family. I hope to be able to represent my own perceptions of my family and friends but relate it to the audience at the same time. I want the pieces I produce to let the audience reflect on themselves or their family relationships.

Using data collected from family members I am constructing videos that encourage the viewers, to think about how they would be remembered. I am particularly interested in this memory topic as not a lot of my family understand art so I want to make art accessible to people outside of the artworld. My choice to focus on identity and memory is to let an audience relate to the topic instead of being introduced to materials they aren’t familiar with.

A point of reference is Gillian Wearing’s ‘2 into 1’ video which highlights the relationship between parents and their children. Wearing uses a juxtaposition between archiving and personal material which has always been a key aspect of my work. I look for a cohesion between the two that will invite the audience to reflect upon themselves more than the subject matter in front of them. My video work uses interviews of my own family members to bring about reflection on family life and issues dealt with in a household setting.