I learnt the code of graffiti painting trains and walls and innovated within it, by the early nineties I moved my practice to warehouses and the streets creating work that was deconstructing the code of graffiti. I rarely photographed my work until the early nineties and then became interested in archiving. In the early nineties I started archiving the spaces I painted with video, this work was essentially still within the code of graffiti as it did not disclose the space rather it concentrated on details and surfaces, I saw it as an extension of my practice and still carry this on today though I concentrate on still images. By the late nineties I moved between the codes of graffiti from “old school” to “de-constuction” of the codes. My main interest is still archiving the places I paint and the coded graffiti work. Archiving can take different forms and I find this the interest I have for gallery work. Graffiti for me is still a process of working within the existing codes and working around these to create variations of the code of graffiti that I will archive.

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