Artist statement
My work focuses on our built and social environment - planned societies and governed life, and the processes of urban planning driven by political and economic demands, whilst paying little regard to our needs and aspirations. Sculptural assemblages piece together fragments of everyday construction materials, handmade ceramic objects and graphite drawings. Rough raw elements are gathered, altered, crafted, and made precious, some appear as historical or geological artefacts. Making do with the materials available, referencing DIY and adhoc activities; self build housing projects and anarchist architecture. I am interested in shaping, altering, and constructing our own spatial environments, whilst critically thinking about the failed modernist estates of our new towns and cities
Qualifications and training
- 2010 MA Fine Art, Chelsea School of Art and Design, London
- 2007 BA Fine Art, Bath Spa University, Bath
Group exhibitions
- 2013 Housing a Pig, Flood, Dublin
- 2013 Mais je ne sais quel œil par accidents nouveaux - Cargo Culte II, Jardin d'Agronomie Tropicale, Paris
- 2012 Glorious Estate - Anna Chrystal Stephens, Keef Winter & Carla Wright, Bruno Glint, London
- 2012 Kiss the Future, Schwartz Gallery, London
- 2012 Approach Togetherness (Film) at Artlicks Event, ICA, London
- 2012 Radar, The Residence Gallery, London
- 2012 Zone Autonome Mutualisee, Vivaruim, France
- 2012 Approach Togetherness, Old Schoolhouse // Vulpes Vulpes, London
- 2012 Edges, Latymer Projects, London
- 2012 When We Build Again // Assembly 1, Hanbury Community Project, London
- 2012 The Video Show, The Function Room, London
- 2012 International Drawing Project - IDP6, PR1 Gallery, UCLAN, Preston, UK
- 2011 Drawing Crowds, Stone Space, London
- 2011 Comfort Tones, Project/Number/3, London
- 2010 We Interventions, Walcot Chapel, Fringe Arts Bath, Bath
- 2010 Citizen - Dissent & Disorder, Utility & Construction, TactileBOSCH, Cardiff
- 2010 Twelve Constellations, Vulpes Vulpes, London
- 2010 Use and Mention, curated by John Chilver, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, The University of Greenwich
- 2009 Anonymous Drawings - Archive Selection 2009, Fruehsorge Contemporary Drawing, Berlin, Germany
- 2008 Anonymous Drawings N° 9, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien (catalogue), Berlin
Curated projects
- 2009 - 2012 www.vulpesvulpes.org, Vulpes Vulpes Project Space, London
Workshops
- 2012 Living Structures Children's Workshop, Latymer Projects, London
- 2011 Making Do - Process 3 - Urban Planning for a new Planet, Manorfield Primary School, London
Residencies
- 2011 Artist Residency, El Nogal International Artist Residency, Madrid
- 2010 Artist residency, HICA (Highlands Institute for Contemporary Art), Scotland
Competitions, prizes and awards
- 2009 Patrick Caulfield Scholarship, UAL, London
Publications
- 2012 Wife Drawing Two by 38b Projects
- 2011 Making Do - Process 3
- 2009 Don't Bother 005 - by Adam Burton
- 2009 Anonymous Drawings No.9
