Aquatic Caravaggio: Underwater Photography Embracing Baroque DramaThe Figurative works form a pivotal body within the artist's practice, bringing the human figure into dialogue with water, architecture, and endurance. Created entirely underwater, these images extend the language of figurative painting into a submerged space where gravity, time, and control are fundamentally altered. This series was developed within a purpose built underground studio environment, where large scale spaces were transformed into flooded

and the distant echoes of the Big Bang

the contamination of rivers and underground water resources

pitch and tone which changes with the temperature of the day

Edition of 25 archival pigment printspaper size 23

Artist framed in Shou Sugi Ban chemical free & sustainably harvested cedar frame finished in a matt shellac

and control are fundamentally altered

sized at 16

Vintage print from an edition of 10 hand printed by the artist between 2004 and 2010

Studio experiments

This series seeks instead to ground such ideas in physical reality

Dated 2010

a species whose history of human cultivation extends back to the earliest records of civilisation