Practice mind-map, 2020
Lives and works in Hove, East Sussex
I am a painter who makes large-scale installations. They are portals into other worlds. Some works are participatory, others are like a trompe l’oeil. Buoyant and colourful they relate to the theatre, the interplay of boundaries and discuss the notion of the Renaissance framing/window in painting. I use industrial plastics juxtaposed with domestic, everyday plastics that are deflated and reused into future works. The materials hold a tactility, which against the sheer backdrop of their imposing scale creates for a curious encounter. Recently I have been researching the history of colour, looking in particular at Werner’s Nomenclature Of Colours from 1814. I have been interested in how I can use contained or infused colour from packaging to have a dialogue with painted colour, expanding on conversations of translucency, saturation and plasticity.
I am currently on the Executive Committee of Artists’ Union England (I am also one of the founding members).
Education 2013 The Slade School of Fine Art, London - MFA Painting (Merit) 2011 Chelsea College of Art and Design, London - Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art (Merit) 2004 Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh - BA (Hons) Painting (2.1) 2001 Camberwell College of Arts, London - BTEC Foundation in Art and Design (Distinction)
Shortlists 2014 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014 The Derek Hill Foundation Scholarship, The British School at Rome 2013 The AIR mini residency, Kings Cross, London 2011 The Clifford Chance Sculpture Prize, London
Selected Group Exhibitions 2024 ‘The Nomenclature of Colours III’, curated by Jo Volley and Stephanie Nebbia, The Slade, UCL, London 2023 ‘Side Salad’, curated by Sarah Pager, The Occasionale, East Sussex 2022 ‘Platforms and Portals’, (two-man show with Elizabeth Meadows), The White Box Gallery, London 2019 ‘Riot!’, SEAS – Socially Engaged Art Salon, BMECP Centre, Brighton 2018 'The whole is other (than the sum of its parts)' ONCA, Brighton 2018 'Here and There', (two-man show with Matt Tarran), Gallery Lock In, Brighton 2017 'SPLIT (land) SCAPES', (two-man show with Anja Borowicz), Gallery Lock In, Brighton 2016 'Pool', The Griffin Gallery, London 2015 'Fidget', Brighton Digital Festival, APEC, Brighton 2014 ‘SEM: Socially Engineered Machine’, The Control Room, Bristol City Council, Bristol 2014 ‘The bARTer Shop’, Walthamstow, London 2014 'Studio. Tomorrow. Buy me things like machines', East Streets Arts, London 2013 'Slice', Hanmi Gallery, London 2013 ‘The Big Draw’, Walthamstow, London 2013 'Midden', Vulpes Vulpes, Bermondsey, London 2013 'MFA/MA The Slade School of Fine Art Degree Show', London 2013 'Cities Methodologies', UCL Urban Laboratory, The Slade Research Centre, London 2013 'Talk to her', (two-man show with Lucy Boyle), Holy Trinity Church, Prince Consort Road, London, 2012 'Store-See-Predict', (collaboration with musician Chris Corocan), The Slade Research Centre, UCL, London 2012 'And you, what do you WORSHIP?', The Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Church, London 2011 'Slade at Testbed 1' (two-man show with Cecily Dryden), Testbed, Battersea, London 2011 'Chelsea Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art Summer Show', Chelsea College of Art and Design, London