Artist statement
I am inspired by the painterly process and its relation to abstraction, and feel passionate about engaging with the subject of borders, edges and peripheries.
I have always been drawn to places which could be described as borderlands, geographically and psychologically but also which have been rendered throughout history by painters and writers. For example I explored and documented the region which was home to the romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich, spending four years in Berlin and on the Baltic island of Rügen.
Since 2002 I have been based in Suffolk to see with my own eyes the locations where John Constable, the 19 th century landscape painter and W.G. Sebald (1944-2001), the German writer, had lived and worked.
Public realm
- 2011 West Suffolk Hospital & Paintings in Hospitals, West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St Edmunds (more info)
Qualifications and training
- 1996 Postgraduate Diploma, painting, Royal Academy Schools, London
- 1993 BA Fine Art, painting, Central St Martins School of Art and Design, London
Solo exhibitions
- 2013 Contemporary British Painting, The Crypt, St Marylebone, London www.contemporarybritishpainting.com
- 2013 I D I O M, The Cut, Halesworth
- 2010 TRANSITION, The Benham Galleries, Colchester
- 2008 You Then, You Now, Highgate Gallery, London
Group exhibitions
- 2012 Colchester Fine Art Open, Minnories Galleries, Colchester
- 2011 Royal Academy in East Anglia, Wingfield Barns, Suffolk
- 2011 The Open West, Summerfield Gallery, Cheltenham (more info)
- 2009 16.4.1, Plane/Site Gallery, Dublin
- 2008 Anonymous Drawings No9, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
- 2008 Muzeum Historii, Galeria "Magiel", Katowice, Poland
Curated projects
- 2010 Outside2010, Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester (more info)
Residencies
- 2013 The Cill Rialaig Project, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry, Ireland
- 2010 Artist in Residence: Lent Term, Ipswich School, Ipswich
- 2007 Belmont Mill, County Offaly, Ireland
- 2007 Plener 2007, Katowice, Poland
- 2005 Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain
Corporate commissions
- 1996 BMW Art Car, Royal Academy, London
Competitions, prizes and awards
- 2012 firstsite's Collectors group bursary, firstsite, Colchester
- 2008 Highgate Gallery Bursary, Highgate Gallery, London
- 2007 International Bursary, Arts Council Ireland & Offaly County Council, Ireland
- 2007 Travel grant, European Cultural Foundation, Amsterdam
- 2007 Project Funding, Juliet Gomperts Trust, London
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