On a more subtle intellectual/emotional plane we locate ourselves within certain debates, definitions, paradigms.

Everything in our world seeks location; in computing terms "Memory Location" is a byte, word or other small unit of storage space in a computer's main memory that is identified by its starting address and size.  In physics the principle of locality states that distant objects cannot have direct influence on one another: an object is influenced directly only by its immediate surroundings - a principle threatened by the quantum world.  The Situationists and Guy Debord set out to study Psychogeography, the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organised or not, on the emotions and behaviour of individuals.

The negotiation of location is a complex, subtle interaction with exterior phenomena and its impact on us, the interiorisation of these cause-effect relationships.  Location is an amalgamation of fixed points and fluidity; of movement - the passage from one place to another; of ourselves as the agents these changes.  As artists situated within a complex socio-political web, how we locate ourselves results in the artwork we produce; it is also linked in a wider sense with the nature of space-time and to identity of the individual selves.

'Location' can refer to many different aspects of life and art.  It can refer to where we are as emerging artists, trying to work within the London art scene and internationally.  It can refer to where we are currently in our lives, at our respective ages, including where we have been and where we are heading.  It can also relate to where we locate our individual art practices, within the greater scheme of the art world and in relation to each other's work.

'Location' can also be much more specific in our works, yet in different contexts.  How we each deal with location on a different level, be it re -location, dis -location, location- less , or location in and of itself.  Our works deal with concepts surrounding physical, psychological, and emotional locations; and ideas of temporal and spatial locations.

Everything is located - our home, our imagination, the words we speak, the sun around which our world revolves. Yet nothing is fixed, and location seems to have meaning only when we negotiate and observe and define and change and give meaning to these sets of coordinates.

We use our art to talk of these positions and shifts.  As the English abstract painter Patrick Heron once said, art determines the way we see the world.