The Constant State
An ongoing interdisciplinary practice exploring fictional cultures, speculative archaeology and imagined futures through painting, sculpture, installation, writing and digital media.
Artist • Active • 2023 – Present
Continue to The Constant State →The Constant State is an ongoing body of work that constructs a fictional civilisation through fragments of architecture, artefacts, archives and recorded histories.
Rather than presenting a single narrative, the project accumulates objects, environments and documents over time. Individual works are understood as evidence of a larger world that is only ever partially revealed. Paintings, sculptures, installations, texts and digital media each contribute to an expanding fictional archive.
The practice draws on the visual language of museums, archaeology, scientific collections and institutional record keeping to blur the boundary between documentation and invention.
The Constant State is built through long-term worldbuilding.
Projects emerge as investigations into particular places, characters or events before gradually connecting to the wider body of work. Relationships between works become as important as the works themselves, allowing narratives to evolve rather than being predetermined.
The practice is intentionally interdisciplinary. Different media are selected according to the needs of the project rather than treated as separate disciplines.
Current areas of research include:
SOMA
MAZO
The Assembly
The Observatory
Together these projects continue to expand the world of The Constant State while exploring new approaches to storytelling, exhibition making and connected knowledge.
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