Over the past 15 years my practice has been diverse and intuitive, spanning from painting, to video, participatory artworks, and installation, often responding to certain spaces, subjects or opportunities. In 2017 a realisation that I had aphantasia (a blind mind's eye), caused a long period of reflection. After a two year hiatus I've began a new series of moving image works, featuring
Over the past 15 years my practice has been diverse and intuitive, spanning from painting, to video, participatory artworks, and installation, often responding to certain spaces, subjects or opportunities. In 2017 a realisation that I had aphantasia (a blind mind's eye), caused a long period of reflection. After a two year hiatus I've began a new series of moving image works, featuring fluid painted landscapes with monologues exploring the meaning of painting, reminiscences of certain events, and the nature of the visual imagination of myself and others.
Selected Exhibitions
2019
Extreme Imagination, Tramway, Glasgow
2016
Studiobook, Artwork Atelier, Salford
2015
Totaller 15” Deep Pan Stuffed Crust Portuguese Man O’War, Paper Gallery, Manchester
Totaller’s Wall, Garage, Edinburgh Art Festival
The Norfolk Knife, Sluice Art Fair, London
2014
Overseasoned Part Deux, Salt+Powell, York
East Street Arts Open Studios Commission, Leeds
Artist in Residence , 3irty 2wo, Scunthorpe
2013
Ceri Hand Fete, Ceri Hand Gallery, London
Sheffield Fringe, Docfest, Sheffield
Regular Line, Nástupište 1-12, Topolcany, Slovakia
2012
Prism 13, Huttons Building, Sheffield
Xanthopsia and 189, South Square Gallery, Thornton, Bradford (solo showToo Much Is Barely Enough, Burslem School of Art, Stoke-on-Trent
2011
No Jury, No Prizes - Kunstszene Zürich
Prism 10, Orchard Centre, Sheffield
Bloc Assembly#11: Last Requests - Bloc Space, Sheffield
We’re All In It Together - Bureau, Manchester
Too Much is Barely Enough - Artlandish, Cleethorpes
2010
Drawn - Clocktower Gallery, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield
2008
Bloc Assembly#9: My Dog’s Got No Nose Curated by utk, Sylvester Street, Sheffield
2007
Host 7 – Home Disco – Touring Video Work: ColArte Gallery, Santander, Spain,
Festival International du Premier Film Annonay, France and Proyecto Diametro, Mexico City
2006
10×10x10- Bloc Space, Sheffield Curated by utk
Bloc Assembly#5: Film & Video, Bloc Studios, Sheffield
Host 7 – Home Disco – Consortium Gallery, Amsterdam
2005
Interruption (Experimental Video and Music event curated by Rebecca Lennon) Manchester
2003
Photographs, Drawings and Ephemera – Bloc Space Sheffield (solo show)
dotdotdotdashdashdashdotdotdot – Hypersafe Building, John Street – Sheffield
Citi-Zen, ART SHEFFIELD 03, Bloc Space, Sheffield
2002
Parafailure – Bloc Projects Sheffield
Awards/Grants etc.
2015
Mark Devereux Projects Studiobook, selectd artist development programme
2014
East Street Arts, Open Studio Commission
2012
Artist in Residence, South Square Gallery, Bradford
2007
Bloc Projects Billboard Commission
1999
Millennium Festival Awards for All Grant
Yorkshire Arts (now Arts Council England) Individual Artists Awards 1995
Unipart Reflections of Technology Award Winner (presented by Edwina Curry)
Education
1998-2003
MA Fine Art – Sheffield Hallam University
1992-1995
BA (hons) Visual Arts – University of Lancaster
Employment
From 2007
Exhibitions Manager – 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe
From 2016
Co-director – Our Big Picture Ltd., Grimsby
2018
Technician/ Artist Assistant - Electric Fence (Annabel McCourt/ Wanja Kimani), Dak'Art: African Contemporary Art Biennale (Senegal)
2008 to 2016
Co-Director/ Board Director – Bloc Projects Ltd, Sheffield
2008 to 2012
Board Director - Art Sheffield/ Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum
2005 to 2007
Exhibitons and Marketing Assistant - 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe
2005 to 2006
Projectionist/ AV technician – S1 Artspace, Sheffield
2001 to 2005
Museums & Galleries Assistant - Millennium Galleries/ Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust
2996 to 2008
Sound & Lighting Engineer/ Promotions Assistant -The Leadmill Ltd, Sheffield/ Freelance Crew/ Stage Manager, Sheffield
Other positions/ Memberships
Bloc Studio Group Member (1998 to 2018)
Writing
2016
Flower Arranger Magazine, Spring 2016 (Flowers in Art)
2014
Axisweb Online Resource for Contemporary Art, Commissioned Text/ Selector for MAStars, November 2014 (Laura Johnson)
2012
Richard Bartle – Deities at the Bottom of the Garden – text for publication accompanying the artist’s solo exhibition/ installation project at 20-21 Visual Arts Centre and forthcoming tour.
2011
Axisweb Online Resource for Contemporary Art – Commissioned Text/ Selection for ‘Artist of the Month’, March 2011 (Hondartza Fraga)
2009
Halima Cassell – Dreams Made Manifest (editor) isbn 978-0953963645 – 65 page hardback publication produced in collaboration with the artist and Reform Creative, Manchester. Including essays by Andrew Lambirth, Peter Randall-Page, Alan Grieve, Helen Joseph and Edmund de Waal
Tom Hackett – The Silicone Boys (catalogue text) isbn 978-0953963652, Catalogue for exhibiton at 20-21 Visual Arts Centre and Skegness, Seas festival
2003
dotdotdotdashdashdashdotdotdot (2003), Catalogue and DVD produced to accompany Sheffield Hallam University MA show, guest edited by Steve Dutton
1998
Infected Material (catalogue text, East Street Arts, Leeds 1998)