HI THERE.

At high school I got banned from the science department for being “too experimental” so I guess it was inevitable that I would harness that energy into my creative process... Quite often, I will have too many ideas --> so they go into the 

 

........ My entry point is to form a relationship with the material,

 

we must get to know each other and work it out from there... I will typically shift, negotiate with and move between and combine mediums to pull it in and work it out.  From start to finish a piece can be completed within a couple of minutes or ongoing over years. 

 

My practice in all forms it takes has always has a diaristic element to it. I am motivated by an urge to express whatever issue or current obsession is rolling around in my head - a conversation on replay, a song, a person, the sciences, a seriously fucked up encounter or, a fleeting moment... life...

perception
I’m interested in drawing connections between subjects and events,  posing questions - where is the line between the real and the imagined.  Research and the act of information gathering, to spew it all out and blur the lines - 

entropy.

image: Jo Galvin (Martinengo) discusses her practice with photographer and art director Laura Taylor.