Throughout my practice, I seek to interrogate the truthful nature of information and visual images. Employing found, appropriated and captured images from both online and physical sources, I construct installations which are intended to be representational of the way in which information is found, stored and constructed into ideas and opinions. The intended dialogue between the painted elements and
Throughout my practice, I seek to interrogate the truthful nature of information and visual images. Employing found, appropriated and captured images from both online and physical sources, I construct installations which are intended to be representational of the way in which information is found, stored and constructed into ideas and opinions. The intended dialogue between the painted elements and pictures creates further questioning for the viewer, an oscillation of truthfulness and falsehood is projected in black and white oil forming ‘grey’ painting which remains tense and unresolved.A regular line of questioning throughout my practice is how do we deal with such large amounts of visual images in a short space of time? and what is our visceral response to living in the age of information? A natural response to the question is to allow naivety and confusion to enter the work. Each piece is formed from fugitive images which through the new visual language created, develops its own meaning within the viewer.
Education
Foundation Art & Design - Coventry University
Fine Art Bachelors – Coventry University (Graduated 2018)
Exhibition
Visual – Roots Gallery, 2014
Emerge (first year exhibition) – Coventry University, 2015
No Ball Games – Earlsdon Festival, 2016
Bourne – Stryx Gallery, 2016
Matter – Urban, 2016
Open Projection – The Box, 2017
Prelude – CET Building, 2018
EXIT. (Degree Show) – Coventry University, 2018
Next Wave 2018 - RBSA
Explode - We Are Luminous - 2018 Lower Holy Head Basement
Coventry First Thursday 2018 - Classroom Gallery
Byob NYE 2018 - Coventry Cathedral
CO-OP(T) - 2019 Unit 5 Fargo Village
Curatorial and Director
Matter – Urban, Coventry, 2016
Weeds and Dust – Glass Box Gallery, 2016
Open Projection / BYOB – The Box, 2017
Coventry University Drawing Prize – CET Building, 2018
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