Artist statement
My practice is based on the intimate relation between object, image and individual. My interest in the dialogue between memory and illusion is reflected in pieces of work that extract the everyday image into a new realm of beauty and fragility. Drawing, photography and installation are the main mediums of my artwork. Previous works have experimented with the dollhouse, the postcard and the souvenir. I am interested in the miniature and its possibilities for evoke a new inner space of daydreaming and contemplation. Taking on a more analytical approach, my practice undergoes a twist experimenting with the technological intermediaries for the creation of images such a night-vision goggles and CCTV cameras.
My latest work has been focusing on video and drawing to explore the notions of home and elsewhere, and what it might mean to be lost in between. The idea of journey, both mental and geographical, as a place it itself. Taking on the position of a traveller who observes the world from the safe distance of an endless wandering, neither here nor there. This work seeks to confront the fictional and elusive character of the familiar and the exotic.
Qualifications and training
- 2007 MA Contemporary Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield
- 2005 BA Fine Art, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Employment
- 2010 Project Manager, NASN (Northern Arts and Science Network), Leeds
Solo exhibitions
- 2012 That Uncertain and Fragile Centre, GreySpace Galleries, Leeds
- 2011 Ever Remote, Ever There, South Square Gallery, Bradford
- 2010 Bearing Elsewhere, Bloc Projects, Sheffield
- 2010 Either Remembered or Not Seen, Babel, Trondheim (Norway)
Group exhibitions
- 2011 Jour de Fete, The Private Space Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
- 2010 The Big Hang, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, UK
- 2010 Above the Serious, The Gallery, Stoke Newington Library, London
- 2010 Hybrid, Persistence Works and SIAD, Sheffield, UK
- 2010 Instinct, empty shop, The Moor,, Sheffield, UK
- 2009 From One Distance To Another, Colar...te Gallery, Santander (Spain)
- 2008 Lisbon Art Fair, Pente 10, Lisbon
- 2008 Conjunction 08 Contemporary Art Festival, Airspace Gallery (and various venues), Stoke-on-Trent
- 2008 Proyecto Bahia Común, Colar…te Gallery, Spain
- 2008 On Your Wall Too, Leeds Met Gallery, Leeds
- 2008 Relocating Absence, Elevator Gallery, London
- 2007 Propuestas, Foconorte, Juan Silió Gallery, Santander
- 2007 Bloc Assembly, Bloc, Sheffield
- 2007 VIII Certamen Artistas Noveles, Sala Cultural Corte Inglés, Santander, Spain
- 2006 Red Wire Open, Red Wire Gallery, Liverpool
Curated projects
- 2011 Ever Remote - Screening, South Square Gallery (and touring), Bradford
- 2009 From one distance to another, Colarte Gallery, Santander, Spain
Residencies
- 2011 Occursus residency, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
- 2010 LKV artist-in-residence, LKV Studios, Trondheim, Norway
Competitions, prizes and awards
- 2012 Woolgather Art Prize 2012, The Loft, Leeds
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