Falling Apart, Falling Together


Falling Apart (Falling Together) explores form and landscape, playing with my own memories of destination and space as influence.

Following the journey of British Sculptor Barbara Hepworth, I travelled from Wakefield, Yorkshire to the South-West peninsula of the UK, where I was to spend 9 days making work on and around the Cornish coast. I decided to touch upon my lasting relationship to Cornwall and the sea, which began from a young age, frequently exploring Hepworth’s Trewyn Studio and the surrounding beaches and hills of St. Ives on our family’s annual holidays.

In turn, this work metaphorically divulges feelings and reflections on my parent’s move to Cornwall from a life long family home, a move which came at a difficult time of my life and signified a change within our relationship. Having been a rather closed off family throughout my teenage years, the distance we had from one another led us to become a closer family and allowed for a newly found conversational relation to my parents as well as the Landscape which so heavily influenced this project.

Installation View - Beyond the Camera: China - Pingyao International Photography Festival (PIP) - 2017

Curated by Sian Bonnell