Artist statement
Through a dialogue between an informal and chance methodology of sculptural arrangement and a purposefully codified register of materials I explore the relationship between installation, incident and its implied significance. My most recent body of works employ the inherent properties of materials that are combined as constituents to echo linguistic syntax. This creates a sculptural phraseology that conspires to an allusion of narrative structure and points reflexively to the irreconcilable dynamics between social conformity and individual ambition.
I am purposefully making things from mediums that tell a story or communicate, and I seek to mis-communicate this: to twist it, and disguise it. I think that often there is a sense that the works create a scene where something has happened, or is just about to... That the materials are reduced to a base-state and then re-presented is both destructive and sinister.
Qualifications and training
- 2005 MA Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
- 1999 BA Fine Art, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle Upon Tyne
- 1995 BTEC Diploma: Art and Design, High Wycombe College of Higher Education, Buckinghamshire
Solo exhibitions
- 2012 Would you care for anything?, 36 Lime Street Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
- 2010 The Short Score, Durham Art Gallery, Durham
- 2008 Fantastica, Grundy Art Gallery & Museum, Blackpool
- 2007 The Wood Between the Worlds, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead
- 2005 High Roller, Project Rooms, Glasgow
Group exhibitions
- 2012 Salon Art Prize 2012 (Overall prize winner), Matt Roberts Gallery, London
- 2012 Collecting Contemporary Art, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
- 2012 Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead
- 2011 Rotate, Contemporary Art Society & Shortlist Media, London
- 2010 Northern Futures, The Civic, Barnsley, Yorkshire
- 2009 Business Network Collection, Coopers Building, Newcastle upon Tyne
- 2008 Tomorrow The Future, Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton
- 2008 From Acanthus to Zebrawood, Cooper Gallery, Dundee
- 2008 Passed as Present, York City Art Gallery, York
- 2007 Emergency 3, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
- 2005 Exit Strategy, Tramway, Glasgow
- 2005 Strange Currencies, Park Circus, Glasgow
- 2004 The International Exchange, New York School of Fine Arts, New York
- 2004 The Games We Play, University of the Arts, Budapest
- 2004 Nimbostratus Blue, EmergeD, Glasgow
- 2003 Space Between Us, SMART Project Space, Newcastle Upon Tyne
- 2002 Ladies Only, Collect Gallery, Liverpool
- 2002 Capital, VANE, Newcastle
- 2001 Wall, Buddle Arts Centre, Newcastle Upon Tyne
- 2000 Playing Fields, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne
- 2000 Precedence, Discovery Museum, Newcastle Upon Tyne
- 1999 VANE Export, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm
- 1999 Waygood Boutique, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne
- 1999 Rocket 2, VANE, Newcastle Upon Tyne
- 1999 Towards The Millennium, Artsway, Hampshire
- 1999 Degree Show, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle
Residencies
- 2007 International Research Residency, ArtGene, Barrow-in-Furness
- 2004 Fellowship, Northern Print Studio, North Shields
- 2000 Artist in residence, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne
- 1999 Artist in residence, Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden, Aberdeenshire
Private commissions
- 2007 Fantastica, Jerwood Space, London
- 2004 Nimbostratus Blue, EmergeD, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Public commissions
- 2009 Underland, Bishopbriggs underpass, Glasgow
Other
- 2012 Salon Art Prize - Overall prize winner, Matt Roberts Gallery, London
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