Forgotten
Timeline

“I am interested in the moment when something invented begins to feel remembered.”

Forgotten Timeline is a world I build through painting, sculpture, objects and moving image. I think of each work as a fragment of a popular culture that never existed: a character, a product or a broadcast that seems to have arrived from another history.

I draw on the comics, animation, advertising and television I grew up with in the 1980s and 1990s. Their colours, rhythms and ways of telling stories have stayed with me. I return to that visual language to explore how an image can feel familiar before we know what we are looking at, and how easily recognition can turn into a sense of memory.

The Robos give this world its inhabitants. They move between canvases, painted boxes, sculptural bodies and screens. I am interested in what happens to a figure as it moves between these forms. A face on a canvas meets the viewer differently from an object that occupies the same room. Repetition establishes a connection, while changes in scale and material make each encounter distinct.

The bright colours and direct graphic language invite an immediate response. Beneath that first encounter, I leave the history incomplete. A package suggests a product, a screen suggests a programme, and a recurring character suggests stories beyond the work itself. I want to leave enough space for viewers to bring their own memories to this invented world.