Artist statement
“The poet scans the landscape with his hermeneutic gaze, but it remains trackless, refuses to emerge into meaningfulness as a landscape of signs”.
J.M.Coetzee – “Disgrace” – 1999
My aim is to search for portent and potential narrative in the overlooked and seemingly insignificant aspects of the everyday. We are all surrounded by the evidence and detritus of almost 40,000 years of the activity of homo faber, and any landscape can essentially be read as an inescapable narrative of intervention. Therefore, I feel it important to celebrate and high light the over looked elements, the anti-monuments and non-events of that landscape, as I feel that these are equally relevant, when we are attempting to decipher a given landscape. Discarded items, the un-thought about gaps between buildings etc., these all have visual qualities that feed into, and inform our piece meal absorption of our surroundings, that subsequently help us to order and decipher the complexity of the environments we construct and inhabit. I feel that the role of the contemporary artist is to force a reassessment of the everyday. It is my intention to highlight overlooked aspects of the everyday, in order to isolate and represent aspects of the urban environment, with the aim of forging a visual poetry of the commonplace, to elevate the irrelevance of the ordinary.
Current and forthcoming events
- June 2013: Lines, The Strand Gallery, London (more info)
- June - July 2013: Fresh Air, The Quenington Sculpture Trust, Cirencester (more info)
Public realm
- 2009 Hole in the Wall, Peacocks Store, Roath, Cardiff (more info)
Solo exhibitions
- 2011 Upstare, The Downstairs Gallery, Herefordshire
- 2011 Occidental Collusions, West Wales School of the Arts Gallery, Carmarthen
- 2009 Inbetweenies, Elysium Gallery, Swansea (more info)
Group exhibitions
- 2012 Croeso I'r Rhath/ Welcome To Roath, Milkwood Gallery, Cardiff (more info)
- 2011 the public exhibition, the public, west bromwich, West Bromwich (more info)
- 2011 Are We Not Drawn To A New Era?, G39, Cardiff
- 2010 The Archive Show, Unit 3b, Sheffield (more info)
- 2010 DIY, surface arts, Exeter (more info)
- 2010 Backlit Open 2010, Backlit, Nottingham (more info)
- 2010 The Tomorrow People, The Elevator Gallery, Hackney (more info)
- 2009 Surface / Space / Time, The Crypt Gallery, London (more info)
- 2009 wood, canvas, steel(?), tactilebosch, Cardiff (more info)
- 2009 Overveiw, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
- 2008 Traces, The Schwartz Gallery, London
- 2005 The Art of Love, The Oxo Tower, London
- 2004 Plinth, The Cube, Leeds
- 2004 Identity, Oriel Davies, Newtown
- 2003 Land, Artsway, Hampshire
- 2001 Twenty Years of Excellence, Bemis Centre for Contemporary Art, Nebraska, USA
- 2000 Wales Drawing Biennale, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
Curated projects
- 2012 The Witching Hour, Goat Major Projects, Cardiff (more info)
- 2010 After The End, Elysium Gallery, Swansea (more info)
- 2009 Like a God, a Vice, or a Good Luck Charm, Bristol Diving School, Bristol
Residencies
- 2012 4 week residency, La Fragua, Cordoba (more info)
Site specific
- 2009 Like a God, A Good Luck Charm or A Vice, The Bristol Diving School, bristol (more info)
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