Copper, which is both the earliest metal used by man and as an essential component of – circuit boards, landline phones, the early internet and today’s smart phones – creates a conceptual archaeological bridge across physical and digital realms, materialising the immaterial and unseen.

Hard Copy works are created by capturing the deteriorating hand-cut paper stencils through the process of photo-etching. The plates are either cleaned and inked or left with the remnants of the acid bath stains unsealed to acquire a Verdigris patina. 

In this series works, actual depth is located within the haptic topography of the shiny copper, in contrast to the virtual depth of the mirrored metal reflecting the space in which the work is situated. The surface is animated by the viewer’s pixelated ‘self’ conscious counteraction (Michel Foucault) and in a perpetual state of change, challenging the intersection between the virtual and the real across dimensions.