Artist statement
I'm interested in questioning the fixed identities of objects and materials so they defy usual definitions and expectations, or, as the artist Tom Friedman has said, 'Testing what matter is by allowing it not to be'.
Central to my practice are ideas of displacement: is the location of material central to its definition so that if it is displaced from its 'real' context can it still be regarded as the same object, where then does it exist, if at all? I am interested in how the re-assembling of such material, or discarded aspects of known objects, can start to question the boundaries of the 'real' by creating a tension between the literal and abstract readings of these objects as signifiers.
My practice is investigative in its nature and form, moving between object, process, event and performance. I don't 'create' objects but work with already existing matter to collapse the distance between art and the mundane, exploring the poetic and often absurd potential of the everyday.
Employment
- 2012 Events and Exhibitions Writer, ArtSelector Magazine, London
- 2011 Visual Arts Magazine Editor, Gallery North, Newcastle
- 2011 Studio Manager, Northumbria University, Newcastle
- 2008 Programme Team Assistant, BALTIC, Gateshead
Solo exhibitions
- 2012 Per Diem, GreySpace Gallery, Leeds
- 2010 Ballon Performance, Peckham Rye, London
Group exhibitions
- 2013 Off Quay Gallery Launch, Off Quay Studios, Newcastle
- 2013 Curated Selection: Axisweb Online Exhibition and Essay, curated by Alice Bradshaw, Axisweb
- 2012 Open Exhibition, Crocus Gallery, Nottingham
- 2012 4th Annual Empty Shop Exhibition, Empty Shop, Durham
- 2012 Open Exhibition, Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick
- 2011 MA Visual Arts Degree Show, Northumbria University, Newcastle
- 2011 Found (Two Person Exhibition), Moving Gallery, Newcastle
- 2011 Moving On, Galleries Inc. Central Square, Newcastle
- 2011 Mixed Media Exhibition, Candid Arts, Islington, London
- 2010 Creative Cohesion: Open Studio Event, Studio Q, Creative Partnerships, Sunderland
- 2009 Instant Mash Collective, Empty Shop, Durham
- 2009 Points of Departure, Unit 1, The Gates, Durham
- 2008 Salon 08, Vine Place Gallery, London
- 2008 Summer Show, Camberwell College, University of the Arts, London
- 2007 Inside/Outside, Mile End Arts Pavillion, London
- 2007 Cornered, Space, Camberwell College of Arts, London
Curated projects
- 2012 Jeremy Davies: Solo Exhibition, Gallery North Project Space, Newcastle
- 2011 Found (Two Person Exhibition), Moving Gallery, Newcastle
- 2009 Attitudes to Form, Empty Shop, Durham
- 2009 Points of Departure, Unit 1, The Gates, Durham
Artist talks
- 2012 Artist's Talk, GreySpace Galleries, Leeds
Educational experience - tertiary
- 2011 MA Fine Art (Distinction), Northumbria University, Newcastle
- 2005 BA Painting (2:1), Camberwell College of Art, University of the Arts, London
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