During my time with both the London based artists – Alex Hoda and Idris Khan, I worked as both assistant and studio manger. At the core, my responsibility remained with the hands–on studio practice, employing existing techniques used by the artist(s) or taking a leading role in the investigation and development in order to achieve new directions within the work. As the scale of individual works and projects grew, so too did the level of research, along with the creation and utilising of new processes.

Alongside my responsibilities within the physical practice were those more concerned with the business of making – costing, budgeting, time-lining and archiving. Working intensively to produce both new bodies of work for gallery shows all over the world, as well as individual autonomous projects, I was able to guarantee realistic and achievable targets and costs. In designing and structuring a comprehensive works archive and studio numbering systems for both artists, I helped facilitate the ease of accessing older photographic material for both press and production purposes, as well as promoting needed organisation within the studio archive itself.

In the role of studio manager, the building of important relationships with the artist’s gallery in the UK as well as those on the continent and in America became paramount. With busy photographic and sculptural  production schedules to maintain, this was a responsibility where concise daily communication and the up to date relaying of information was a necessity.