My work is led by the materials and marks that I am attracted to and their inherent meanings. I currently use mainly dust, tumble dryer lint, and hair because of their close contact with humans. I explore through drawing, painting, video, sculpture and installation.
My work is led by the materials and marks that I am attracted to and their inherent meanings. I currently use mainly dust, tumble dryer lint, and hair because of their close contact with humans. I explore through drawing, painting, video, sculpture and installation.
A surreal aesthetic often emerges during the making process. I am interested in Kristeva's theories on the fear of the abject and there is often a tension between the fragility of the work and the repellant nature of materials normally cleared from our spaces and discarded.
Starting points vary, and can be anything from myths and fairy tales to museum artefacts, or even exhibition titles. I enjoy researching topics alongside making in the studio.
Qualifications and training
2004 - PGCE Art and Design, Reading University
2003 - MA Fine Art - Drawing, Wimbledon School of Art
2002 - BA (Hons) First in Fine Art - Sculpture, Surrey Institute of Art and Design
Group exhibitions
2022 Boundaries, West Downs Gallery, Winchester
2019 RWA 167, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2019 Declassified, The Allen Gallery, Alton
2019 Insight, The Base, Newbury
2018 Mottisfont Open Exhibition, Romsey
2018 Transform, Westbury Manor Museum, Fareham
2017 Material Matters, The Pie Factory, Margate
2017 - Pay and Display, Centrespace, Bristol
2016 - Ing Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London
2016 - Black Swan Open, Black Swan Arts, Frome, Somerset
2016 - Materials Matter, South Hill Park, Bracknell
2016 - The Time Garden, Frimley Park Hospital, Camberley, Surrey
2015 - Expansion, New Greenham Arts, Newbury, Berks
2014 - Compressed Space, Link Gallery, Winchester
2013 - Mote, Harrington Mill Studios, Castle Eaton, Nottingham
2013 - Hackwood Art Festival, Basingstoke, Hants
2012 - Drawing towards Sculpture, The Shop Gallery, Basingstoke
2012 - 'Surface disturbances'evidence of biological time-part 2, Searchers Contemporary, Bristol
2012 - Swept Away; Dust, Ashes and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
2010 - Westmalle Castle, Westmalle, Belgium
2010 - Insight, New Greenham Arts, Newbury, Berks
2009 - Crunch, New Greenham Arts, Newbury
2009 - Insight, New Greenham Arts, New Greenham Park, , Newbury, Berks
2009 - PS8, The Peacock Gallery, Reading
2009 - ReOpen, Kube and Lighthouse, Poole
2008 - Re-form, New Greenham Arts, Newbury, Berks
2005 - The Hackwood Art Festival, Hackwood Farm, Basingstoke
2003 - Diverse, The Old Truman Brewery, London
2003 - MA Express, Wimbledon School of Art, Wimbledon
2003 - Platform for Art, London Transport
2003 - What we did in the Christmas Holiday, WSA 2002 - BHF Bank, London
2002 - BA Show, SIAD
Competitions, prizes and awards
2009 - Re-form prize winner, Kube, Poole, Lighthouse, Poole
2003 - AHRB Bursary, Wimbledon School of Art, London
Educational experience - secondary
2004 - Teacher of Art, Cranbourne Business and Enterprise College, Basingstoke
Projects
2014 - "It's All About Me" Art Workshop with Autistic Students at Prior's Court School
Publications
2012 Work,Work Balance feature in NSEAD Magazine
2012 work published in Swept Away; Dust, Ashes and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design
2003 work published in International Venice Agendas 2003; A Series of Breakfast Meetings
Other
2013 - Work featured on BBC South Today
2005 - Work featured on ITV Meridian News
2016 - 2022 Committee Member for Hampshire Sculpture Trust
