Appropriating historical artworks, literature, narrative objects, and places. I reconfigure, install, add, arrange, cast, project or act, to articulate endeavours, thoughts, happenings and occurrences. The power of objects and places to become paths between time, catalysts, reminders and souvenirs. The way that the inner subjective world is shaped, played out upon and contained in our biographical surroundings. The material world existing in parallel with internal thoughts and experience, the virtual or the dreamed, represented through natural landscapes, projected images, films, audio or impressions.
Appropriating historical artworks, literature, narrative objects, and places. I reconfigure, install, add, arrange, cast, project or act, to articulate endeavours, thoughts, happenings and occurrences. The power of objects and places to become paths between time, catalysts, reminders and souvenirs. The way that the inner subjective world is shaped, played out upon and contained in our biographical surroundings. The material world existing in parallel with internal thoughts and experience, the virtual or the dreamed, represented through natural landscapes, projected images, films, audio or impressions.
Writing on 'The Delirium of Joy', The artist and writer Ambrosine Allen describes;
“I felt what May had created was a kind of ghostly archive, where real landscapes are layered with inner more metaphorical landscapes and connections are formed between past and present, fact and fiction. I left thoughtful about the idea of 'sculptural film', impressed by both the physical power of the installation and the romantic illusions of the projected media, seduced by how you can get lost somewhere in-between.”
Qualifications
2008 - MA Fine Art: Sculpture, Distinction, Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London 2008 - Post Graduate Certificate in Education, University of Westminster 1992 - BA (Hons) 3D Design (Glass), First class, Wolverhampton University
Exhibitions
Art of the Possible, PM Gallery, Soane Museum Ealing , Construction , Gallery, 74 - 80 Upper Tooting Rd London, Normalcy Bias, Listros Galerie - Berlin, Wonderlust, APT Gallery Creekside Deptford, Birds of a Feather, Sueli Turner Gallery, Mile End - (N)Everland, The Nunnery Bow Arts Trust, Bow , Future Map 08, David Roberts Art Foundation Fitzrovia, London, Approaches to What? - The Nunnery, Bow, SharkPot - Node London, Studio 1B Richmond, Domestic Perspective - Center for Drawing, Wimbledon, Ground Rules - Canazario Park, Wimbledon, Curated by Terry Smith and Gilane Tawadros, Current - Trinity Buoy Wharf, East India Docks, Muscular Pet - Mashed Potato Gallery, Deptford, Designer block – Old Street, Tea Building, The Biscuit factory -Newcastle, Collect V&A
Publications Glass - An Inspirational Portfolio - Watson -Guptill NY
Founder Just Glass Society
Articles / Reviews
Craft & Design –The Just Glass Story, S. Prendergast Jan Feb 2015
South London Art Map
Evening Standard review Future Map
Bloomberg.com
Timeout review Canazario Park
Current Academic Position - Foundation Art & Design tutor and Coordinator City Lit
2013 -2018 - Head of Richmond Art School
2008 -2013 Learning Manager Visual Arts, & tutor HNC & Foundation Art & Design RACC
2006 -2008 -Faculty Manager Visual Arts, & tutor HNC & Foundation Art & Design RACC
2004 – 2006 Program leader & tutor HNC & Foundation Art & Design RACC
2002 -2004 Lecture Glass & Sculpture RACC