Artist statement
Working across a diverse range of media including drawing, photography and installation my work explores ideas of the sacred and mystical in the everyday. I engage in a process of recombining familiar signifiers to conjure a sense of the numinous and powerful potential of the commonplace. I try to create a world that is haunting, humorous and sexy.
Some initial explorations of these ideas that focus on street furniture and signs. These objects are repeatable and so mundane that they are hardly perceived by the habitual city-dweller, but they instruct and dictate our movements, guiding us through the maze of the city, enforcing an underlying set of rules.
My drawings combine the language of arcane symbols and street furniture to re-cast cities as a playground for cults. By integrating the starkly functional vernacular of traffic control with indulgent and illogical occultism a new syntax of curb-side shrines emerges, portentous and sinister.
Qualifications and training
- 2012 Arts Award Bronze and Silver Adviser, Arts Award, UK
- 2011 Working with looked after children, Norfolk County Council, Norwich
- 2008 Enquire - Artist Educator training, The Sainsbury's Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich
- 2006 PGCE in Post-Compulsary Education, City College Norwich, Norwich
- 2004 Visual Studies, Norwich University College of the Arts, Norwich
Employment
- 2009 Artist Educator, Norfolk Museum Service, Norfolk
- 2008 Artist Consultant, The Sainsbury's Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich
Solo exhibitions
- 2012 Ennead, Soup Lab, Norwich
Group exhibitions
- 2012 Alas residency exhibition, Matt Roberts Gallery, Vyner Street, London
- 2011 Rituaalit (Rituals) exhibition, Köysiratagalleria, Turku, Finland
- 2010 Arts Pool 10, Arts Pool Gallery, Oxford
- 2010 Drink and Dial, Wilson Williams Gallery, London
- 2009 7th International Mini Print Exhibition, Touring, Touring
- 2009 Drawing with Dolphins, Crimestown Gallery, London
Residencies
- 2012 Artist in resident, Soup Lab, Norwich
- 2012 ALAS Residency, Matt Roberts Arts, London
- 2009 Mundesley Encounters, The Sainsbury’s Centre for Visual Arts, Norfolk
- 2009 Rapid, Seachange Arts, Finland
Competitions, prizes and awards
- 2012 Attendance of ALAS residency, Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England
- 2011 Rituaalit exhibition, The Finnish Cultural Heritage Foundation's Residence Grant, Finland
Publications
- 2012 Binge
- 2012 This is Not a Gallery
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