Artist statement
I make installations, drawings and sculpture using a wide variety of materials. There are two approaches running throughout my entire practice to date: a sense of political and social realism entwined with a surreal ‘Narnia-esque’ escapism. Such seemingly opposing ideologies have resulted in works that have a poetic dreamlike but gritty quality shaped by contrast.
Qualifications and training
- 2011 MFA, Bath Spa University, Bath, Somerset. UK
Solo exhibitions
- 2009 Solo, Cyprus College of Art, Lemba, Cyprus
- 2005 Labour to Lush @ The Room Upstairs, Wolsey Art Gallery, Suffolk
Group exhibitions
- 2011 Flout, Axis Art Centre, Crewe
- 2011 Liverpool Now Part One, Mello Mello Bohemia Space, Liverpool
- 2010 Wrong Love, The A Foundation, Liverpool, UK
- 2008 Liverpool Art Prize 2008, Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool, UK
- 2005 Service Not Included, The Adi Gallery, London, UK.
Residencies
- 2012 Artist in Residence, The Bridge Guard, Sturovo, Slovakia - www.bridgeguard.org/en/
- 2007 Artist in Residence, The New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, Suffolk. UK
Public commissions
- 2012 The Man on the Hill, Leeds Art Gallery and Grassington Festival 2012, Yorkshire
Projects
- 2011 L5-6QW, touring - ongoing, current - Gwealod-y-Garth, South Wales
Competitions, prizes and awards
- 2011 Student Ambassador Award to assist at Venice Biennale, ArtSways New Forrest Pavilion, Palazzo Zenobia, Venice
- 2007 Arts Council Funding of £5,000 granted for 'Tunnel' project, The New Wolsey Theatre, Suffolk
- 2007 Local Government Grants of £5,000 for 'Tunnel' project, The New Wolsey Theatre, Suffolk
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