Artist statement
Art is a mimesis of reality; the reality being the everyday. This reality that we have become accustomed to has been appropriated. This alternate 'reality', which has been created, embraces humorous obscurities by acknowledging the mundane and the ludicrous. The work is an investigation that explores where the alternate reality is present and where it ceases to exist.
As the study of these interpretations of the obscure and the 'uncanny' commences through interdisciplinary means, what is asked of the viewer is their engagement. The spectator should approach the works with an open mind to experience this alternate world with alternate rules.
There are playful notions present amongst these ambiguities displayed through simplistic aesthetics, which mimics that of Postmodernist views. I have 'become a manipulator of signs more than a producer of art objects and the viewer an active reader of messages rather than a passive manipulator of the aesthetic', (Osborne and Sturgis, 2006).
Qualifications and training
- 2009 BA Hons Fine Arts: Drawing & Painting, The University of Huddersfield, Yorkshire
Employment
- 2011 Bronwen Buckeridge Artist Assistant, Rogue Studios, Manchester
Solo exhibitions
- 2011 Ambitions Dream Nothing, Untitled Gallery, Manchester
Group exhibitions
- 2012 Twitter Art Exhibition, Moss Library, Norway
- 2012 International Drawing Exhibition, PR1 Gallery, UCLan
- 2012 Show Your Face, Cultivate Gallery, Vyner Street, London.
- 2012 Drawing Exhibition, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield
- 2011 Abort, Retry, Fail?, South Square Gallery, Bradford
- 2011 RNIB Exhibition, Lowry Outlet Mall, Salford Quays
- 2011 Vanguard Exhibition, Studio 1D, Clapton, London
- 2011 Drawing Connections, Siena Art Institute, Italy
- 2011 Salon Des Refuses, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
- 2011 Workhouse, The Hive, Manchester
- 2011 Art Auction, Islington Arts Factory, London
- 2011 Temporary Art Show Part 3, Westgate Studios, Wakefield, Yorkshire
- 2010 Cross My Art, 210 Pentonville: Art & Escape Gallery, London
- 2010 NEoN Party in the Car Park, Guerilla Gallery, Dundee
- 2010 Lost & Found Film Festival. Work selected by Milton Keynes Gallery, MK4U Festival, Milton Keynes
- 2010 Free For All, Free For Arts Festival, Manchester
- 2010 Islington Summer Art Open, Metamorphosis Gallery, London
- 2010 Summer Open 2010, Tea Leaf Arts, London
Live/Performance
- 2011 An Evening of Action, South Square Gallery, Bradford
Artist talks
- 2011 Professional Practice Lecture, The University of Huddersfield, Yorkshire
Public commissions
- 2009 Everyone We Ever Worked With: Mixed media installation, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Projects
- 2011 Contemporary Experimental Art Archive, Online Project: www.contemporaryinstallationproject.com, Online Archive
- 2011 Failure Project, Online Project: failure2011.blogspot.com, Online Archive
Competitions, prizes and awards
- 2012 Neo: Artprize 2012, Neo: Gallery, Bolton
- 2011 Shortlisted: The National Open Art Competition, The National Open Art Competition, Sussex
- 2011 Shortlisted: Saatchi Showdown, Saatchi, London
- 2011 Artist of the week, Salon Contemporary, London
- 2010 Shortlisted for the Art & Escape Awards, Art & Escape Gallery, Hertfordshire
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