My work deals primarily with the public projection of something private and personal, frequently exposing constraints and resulting awkwardness in the acceptance of masculine stereotypes.

I like to stage a spectacle, in which I explore something that is hidden in the way that people (specifically men) project a performed identity that allows them to repress their private urges.

I like my work to take people by surprise. I explore peoples’ sensibilities, twisting them in a humorous but respectful manner, creating a subtly subversive expose of our hidden attitudes towards our own and other peoples’ identities.

I work with film in order to examine micro gestures that say more about a character’s true identity than what they might display in deliberate public projection.

Accidental or found fragments converge to inspire my jewellery. ‘Gutter Bling’ is produced from often broken or discarded items, which are given a new chance to exist in a far less predictable context than their original destiny.

My ongoing experimental sound project, ‘Liono’, explores how a sound-scape can be organised from intentionally accidental fragments, and can come together to form a one off record of an event that cannot be adequately explained in any other way.

www.danpetley.co.uk