Artist statement
My work is simultaneously about portraiture and representation. Through the medium of photography, video and performance I explore ways that emotional relationships may affect our perception of body image and personality, whilst playing with the different formats and roles that photography can have.
Within my art practice I have always been interested in referencing the back-story and investigating the processes involved in producing work. I enjoy speculation, conversation and reciprocation. There has become a need to include others in the physical making of my work whether through direct audience participation as in ‘Private View’, 2002 – 2010 or through the employment of re-touchers in ‘The Standard Package Trilogy’, 2008 – 2011.
I have a reactive approach, autobiographical in a sense; I have explored and continue to investigate attraction, desire, selection and fertility. It seems to be a logical progression that domesticity, gender roles, motherhood and the disappearance of self would be reflected in current and future pieces.
Public realm
- 2011 Open Art, Orebro, Sweden, Orebro, Orebro (more info)
- 2011 Birthrites Symposia, Whitechapel Gallery, London (more info)
Qualifications and training
- 2004 PGCE Post Compulsory, The Institute of Education, London
- 2003 MA Photography, Royal College of Art, London
Solo exhibitions
- 2012 OVUM, Boxroom Gallery, Folkestone
- 2005 Pick n Mix, Wuthering Heights (Photography in focus festival), Malmo, Sweden
Group exhibitions
- 2013 Factory- FORMAT International Photography Festival, University of Derby, Derby
- 2011 Check out, Harbourside, Folkestone (more info)
- 2011 Kent Open Photography -KOAX, Mascalls Gallery, Paddock Wood
- 2010 Exqusite Corpse, Core Gallery, London
- 2010 East Sussex Open, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne
- 2009 The Affluenza Exhibition, 187-211 St. John Street, Clerkenwell, EC, London, London (more info)
- 2008 Foto8 Summer Show, Host Gallery, London
- 2008 1st Open Photography Show, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
- 2006 The Responsbility of Forms, Atkinson Gallery, Somerset
Curated projects
- 2011 Check in, Harbourside, 14 Wear Bay Road, Folkestone, Folkestone (more info)
- 2010 Perfection, www.criticaldictionary.com (issue 23), www.criticaldictionary.com
- 2010 Yuko Nasu & Liv Pennington, Co-Exist, Southend
- 2010 Exquisite Corpse, Core Gallery, Deptford (more info)
- 2008 Face Value, Oriel Mostyn, Wales
- 2008 Backlight 08, 8th International Photography Triennial, Photographic Centre Nykyaika and then tours, Tampere, Finland
- 2007 As Serious as your life, Bilm Museet, Umea Sweden
- 2007 Deep Inspiration, Jerwood Space, London
Artist talks
- 2011 Birth Rites Symposia, Whitworth Museum, Manchester (more info)
Workshops
- 2007 Portfolio Tips, Tate Modern (Raw Canvas), London
Projects
- 2009 NepArtism, www.nepartism.com, Online
Competitions, prizes and awards
- 2010 Birthrites Collection, http://birthritescollection.org.uk/, http://birthritescollection.org.uk/
Publications
- 2008 Ending Future Feminisms (Zine)
- 2008 http://www.slashseconds.org
Personal website
