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These have tapped into notions of movement, dislocation and history that stem from my own family background. The works extended references go beyond my own inquiry, enabling me to reach, I hope, a wider audience.

The projects have taken various forms including sculpture, film and photography and recently computer-generated animation. They are generally process- based and, depending on the direction and needs of a project, I contact relevant individuals, groups or institutions during site visits and research leading up to a proposal and sometimes right through to the implementation of the completed work.

As touched on above, a substantial element of my work stems from my father's experience as a refugee from the Ukraine following the Second World War. My engagement with this history has led to work that has used scrapped metal from de-commissioned Soviet submarines and casting them into bells, large-scale photographs of firemen who died at Chernobyl, the construction of a fully operational ocean-going buoy, through to a model and computer animation of a Trident nuclear submarine.

A newly commissioned work for Yorkshire Sculpture Park will also utilise computer animation. This work centres on the 300m high concrete Emley Moor television mast, located between Huddersfield and Wakefield in West Yorkshire. The mast, the tallest freestanding structure in the UK, is visible from a considerable distance within the surrounding area including the sculpture park where the work will be exhibited.

The work, titled The Outside World, will be shown alongside a number of previous works spanning the period 1990 – 2002.