“These fragments I have shored against my ruins” T S Eliot. The Wasteland 

I often think about this line and the collage-like nature of the Wasteland as a whole, in relation to the way fragments work, not only in art, but in the fragmentary nature of social media and of daily existence. Sometimes the world seems so discontinuous that we find ourselves having to strive for continuity.

I have been collecting, storing and using fragments for many years. While the fragment’s defining characteristic is that it’s displaced from its origin, essentially I don’t really know how and why these things become so significant for me.

I want to retain the transient nature of the fragment as a signifier of discontinuity and fracture, in contrast to the fragment’s deliberate use as a pictorial component.

Apart from finished works, I have another smaller ongoing body of material. Whist this can be understood as preparatory work, it is essentially composed of fragments. My work originated in geometric abstraction and has, over time, also become concerned with collecting and collage. I both use, and produce, fragments. These are “image fragments” some found and some made by me as by-products of other work. Some have a physical presence, others are digital, and there are many crossovers.