My current practice proposes ideas towards design, placement and a digital environment, using appropriated images and objects. Through playful, sometimes witty, arrangements of ready-made objects/sculptural edits and manipulated imagery; my work forms propositions on various spectacles in contemporary society, often referencing ideas and connections to existence, value, and aesthetic language, either questioning or re-addressing relationships with it.
More recent concerns in my practice have addressed ideas regarding masculinity and image as well as my own sense of male identity. From this, my research has centered around cinematic experience and its role in shaping the changing state of contemporary male ego, through the application of my own film-making, recreating iconic style cinema scenes but with an altered mundane, uneventful narrative.
Education
2012 --- BA (Hons) Fine Art [First Class Honours] Staffordshire University
Solo Exhibition
2015 --- TOUCH, ATTIC, Nottingham, England
2013 --- Designed for Life, Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, England
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015 --- Sheets Still Orange From Your Spray Tan, Paradise Projects, Leicester, England
2015 --- New Art West Midlands 2015, Birmingham Museum, England
2015 --- Nottingham Open 2015, Nottingham Castle, England
2014/15 --- Re-opening Exhibition, Middleport Pottery, Stoke-on-Trent, England
2014 --- Art Rave, Birmingham, England
2014 --- AA2A, UniQube, Stoke-on-Trent, England
2013 --- Untitled, Cureé, Leeds, England
2013 --- Private Party, 2022, Manchester, England
2012 --- Studio Show 12, Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, England
2012 --- Exhibition, Staffordshire University Degree Show, England
2011 --- Edinburgh Art Fair, Edinburgh, Scotland
2011 --- NULC Degree Show, Newcastle-Under-Lyme College, England
2010 --- Studio O, Victoria Mill Gallery, Congleton, Cheshire
Residencies
2015 --- 1 Month Residency, ATTIC, Nottingham, England
2013/2014 --- 6 - Month AA2A Residency, Staffordshire University, England
2013 --- 6 - Month Graduate Residency, Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, England
Curated
2014 --- AA2A Exhibition, UniQube, Stoke-on-Trent, England
2012 --- Studio Show '12, Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, England
Talks & Lectures
2014 --- AA2A Residency, Staffordshire University
2014/2015 --- Newcastle-Under-Lyme College
Awards & Honours
Nottingham Open 2015 Prize Winner
New Art West Midlands 2015 Selected Artist
