Forms of map-making play an important part in my practice, which essentially centres around ambiguities in human perceptions of wildness and wilderness in both the urban and pastoral environment. The history and symbolism of power in both the personal and public arenas are also recurrent preoccupations, explored minutely through a wide range of media, methods and locations.
Forms of map-making play an important part in my practice, which essentially centres around ambiguities in human perceptions of wildness and wilderness in both the urban and pastoral environment. The history and symbolism of power in both the personal and public arenas are also recurrent preoccupations, explored minutely through a wide range of media, methods and locations.
Most recent pre-occupations are with Swarm theory, and the conflicting dialogues between urban and rural experience. Currently working at Troedrhiwsebon in Wales, as Short&Forward, in collaboration with Louise Short.
Qualifications and training
2007 - MA Fine Art, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, Wales - Documentary Film Training, BBC Ealing Studios, London - BA (Hons) Fine Art, Hornsey School of Art (Middlesex University), London
2014 - Swarm Society, Ceredigion Museum, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK
2010 - BEE LINES, Stroud Valleys Artspace, Gloucestershire, UK
2006 - Regeneracion, Biblioteca Nacional de Tunal, Bogota , Colombia
2015 - Griffin Gallery Open, London, Conte Drawing Prize finalist - Short&Forward at BV Open, Bristol UK- 2014 - Excerpt From a Library of Cast Objects, New British Art, Cylhrynys, as part of the National Eisteddfod, Wales, UK - Apiculture:The Art of Pollination, Peninsula Gallery, Plymouth, UK 2013 - Sweet Dreams, Wallsworth Hall, Gloucestershire, UK. 2012 - Boar Skull Vanitas, Short&Forward collaborative filmwork screened at Geneva Projects Film Festival, Bristol. 2012 - Art&theBee, Buckfast Abbey, Buckfastleigh, Devon. 2011 - Marmite Prize for Painting finalists, Central Art Gallery/Lanchester Gallery/The Nunnery, Tameside/Coventry/London, UK. 2010 - Lines of Desire, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales, UK 2010 - Super8Station Film Festival, ARNOLFINI, Bristol, UK 2009 - AiM International Biennale, Cyber Park, Marrakech, Morocco 2009 - Curatorial Contrasts, BAYART gallery, Cardiff, Wales, UK. 2009 - The Darbyshire Award (winner), Museum in the Park, Stroud, UK 2007 - Cardiff Fine Art MA Show, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, Wales, UK 2007 - Very Important Products, CentreSpace Gallery, Bristol, UK 2006 - Venice Bienal de Bogota, Barrio de Venice, Bogota, Colombia 2005 - The Marconi Project, Site-ations International 2005-6 (Artists Projects), Flat Holm Island, Bristol Channel, UK 2004 - From The Ground Up, Old Brewery Galleries, Brick Lane, London, UK. 2003 - Fossil Fuel, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Wales, UK
2011 - Super8Station Film Festival, live film accompaniment at ARNOLFINI, Bristol, UK - 2010 - The Bristol Beehive Inaugural Walk, public participatory event, Arnolfini Gallery to Windmill Hill, Bedminster, Bristol, UK 2007 - Being Bird, Resound Art/Radio Sonic Art Conference, Stroud Valleys Artspace, Gloucestershire, UK
2014 - Bees in Art, lecture at Ceredigion Museum offsite gallery, Aberystwyth - 2011 - Artist's Presentation, Cortijada de Los Gazquez, Andalucia, Spain 2010 - In Conversation with Tom Trevor (director of ARNOLFINI GalleryBristol), SVA , Stroud, UK 2009 - Artist's Presentation, Cortijada de Los Gazquez, Andalucia, Spain - AiM Report, Stroud Valleys Artspace, Stroud, UK - 2006 - Invasion, Presentation, Biblioteca Nacional Central, Bogota, Colombia
2014 - Swarmbuilding, schools workshop at Ceredigion Museum, Aberystwyth, UK - 2009 - Drawing in the Dark I , STATION and Spike Island, as part of The Bristol Drawing Exchange Project, Bristol, UK - 2009 - Drawing in the Dark II, St John's Crypt, public drawing project, Bristol,UK
2015 - Popty Bach 2015, Oriel Q Offsite, Pembrokeshire - 2011 - Joya Artists Residency Part II, Cortijada de Los Gazquez, Andalucia, Spain 2009 - Joya Artists Residency Part I, Cortijada de Los Gazquez, Andalucia, Spain 2006 - Wales Arts International residency in Bogota, Colombia 2005 - The Flat Holm Project, as part of Site-ations International 2005/6, Flat Holm Island, Bristol Channel, UK
2015 - Grimaldi's Lunch, plasterwork ceiling, Short&Forward collaborative piece, Venice, Italy - 2009 - AliasArtCamp 2009, documentary film commission for Artist-Led Initiative Advisory Service , South West England, UK 2008 - a momentary: film with Louise Short, Tblisi Film Festival at The Cube Cinema, Bristol, UK 2008 - CLIMB, film commission , Forest of Dean Sculpture Trust and Forestry Commission, Coleford, Gloucestershire, UK Public commissions 2005 - Ghost, sculpture installation, Cardiff Parks, Roath Park, Cardiff, UK
2012 -2014 The Short&Forward MOBILE STUDIO Project: UK, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal 2011 - Beelines on Windmill Hill, Windmill Hill, Bristol, UK
2010 - Lines of Desire, catalogue, Oriel Davies, Newtown 2010 - Marmite Prize for Painting 2010, catalogue, Susak Press,London 2010 - International Journal of Nautical Archeology, review, vol.39, issue 2, Blackwell Publishing, London 2009 - International Journal of Nautical Archeology, review, vol.38, issue1, Blackwell Publishing, London 2006 - Sense in Place, Site-ations International 2005-6, catalogue, University of Wales, Cardiff
