Artist statement
As an architectural glass artist, I work mostly to commission, responding to and creating a dialogue with the space in question. Screens, canopies, windows, walls or feature panels are produced for a variety of corporate, public and private locations.Whilst developing ideas, I work with photography as a means of accurately capturing an object, atmosphere or quality of light. My work utilises a combination of imagery and ideas drawn from the surrounding environment. I photograph or scan objects or textures and digitally manipulate and overlay them, playing with the scale and its eventual impact. The resulting composites are digitally printed onto film or screen-printed using glass enamels onto large sheets of float glass. These are often layered or obscured with textured, sandblasted and acid etched panels. These sheets of glass are either suspended using tensile cables or framed within the fabric of the building.Each piece is created specifically for the surrounding architecture and location and incorporates ideas relating to the function of the building and its aesthetic qualities. In reflecting and magnifying the often unexamined details and overall qualities of the location, I aim to root the artwork and achieve a synthesis with its surroundings.
Current and forthcoming events
- May 2013: Cookham Festival Open Studios, 30 Oaken Grove, Maidenhead, Maidenhead (more info)
Qualifications and training
- 1995 BA Architectural Glass and Painting, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
- 1992 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Wimbledon School of Art, London
Solo exhibitions
- 2006 Treading the Boards, Phoenix Gallery, Grand Opera House, Belfast
Group exhibitions
- 2005 'Fragile Cargo' Anglo/Hungarian Touring Exhibition, Glass Art Gallery, London; World of Glass, St Helens, Budapest, Kaposvar, St Helens, London, Bruges, Tilberg
- 2003 'Nou Vitrall': Exhibition of International Architectural Glass, College of Architects and Technical Engineers, Barcelona, Spain
- 2002 'Connections', New London Glass Exhibition, Espai Vidre Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
- 2001 'Tracks', Platform for Art, New London Glass Exhibition, Gloucester Road Underground Station, London
Private commissions
- 2004 Memorial Window, Thames Valley Adventure Playground, Maidenhead, Berkshire
- 2004 Digitally printed etch film on glass facade, 'Cargo Fleet' Architects' House, Drayton Park, London
- 1999 Folding Glazed Doors, Barn Conversion, Private House, Cark in Cartmel, Cumbria
Public commissions
- 2007 Resource Centre Artwork, South Bromsgrove High School, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
- 2007 Collaborative Vinyl Artwork, Holy Trinity Primary School, Weymouth, Dorset
- 2006 Screen-printed glass balustrades for theatre extension, Belfast Grand Opera House, Belfast
- 2000 Glazed Building Frontage and Door, Look Ahead Housing and Care Hostel, Hammersmith, London
Corporate commissions
- 2005 Kiln-formed glass, printed film and hanging features in five parts, The Hilton Hotel, Diagonal Mar, Barcelona, Spain
- 2003 Layered screen-printed glass wall and printed wooden tray cupboards, Restaurant for The McGraw-Hill Companies, Canary Wharf, London
- 2000 Nineteen glass reception panels and reception desk, Morgan Stanley, Canary Wharf, London
- 2000 Office screens and doors, Dennis Publishing, Central London
- 1999 Dividing restaurant screens, Financial Services Authority, Canary Wharf, London
Educational experience - secondary
- 2007 Architectural Glass, Queen Elizabeth School, Wimborne, Dorset
- 2007 Art and Architecture, South Bromsgrove High School, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
Educational experience - tertiary
- 2005 Visiting Lecturer, Richmond Adult Community College, UCCA at Farnham, Westminster Adult Education Service, Farnham and London
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