“My work explores notions of enchantment. Revisiting the world of fable – a genre which seeks to combine moral instruction with the aesthetically pleasing – I’ve looked at medieval and Renaissance images, fairytale and children’s book illustration, theatre props and scenic drawings as well as at art history.

I’m interested in how images are carried forward in culture and in how they are mediated by technologies reproducing and transforming them. In considering this image transfer I’ve explored older methods of scaling up, stencil making and ‘pouncing’, as well as contemporary approaches such as internet searches, photographic projection and the photocopy.

The relationship between humans and the natural world – celebrated as symbolic and sacred in the bestiary of medieval times – is the focus of my consideration. I hope to rekindle an animist sense of wonder at transmutation in which plants, animals and the very stones may be helpers – spirit guides for the Waste Land grail quest of end times.”

Read more: Essay by Keely Shinners

Photographer: Vanessa Cowling