Artist Statement
I design and make glass artwork for architectural settings, creating visually stimulating work that responds to the nature of a space, becomes part of the fabric of an environment and, I hope, adds something to people's everyday lives.
I work to commission for a wide variety of applications and undertake public art projects, often in collaboration with other artists and designers. I also follow my own independent creative ideas to make glass and paper based artworks and installations for gallery and domestic interior or exterior environments.
Drawing, photography, film and other multimedia work is important to my practice and sensibilities from these areas feed into my work with glass. I work with flat glass employing techniques including layering, sandblasting, water-jet cutting, fusing, and painting as well as traditional stained glass. I am also researching the creative application of glass and thin-film coating technology, aided by links with Saint Gobain Glass UK.
My current work explores the variable reflectivity and transparency of glass surfaces, how this interacts with variable lighting conditions and the spatial ambiguity this combination of elements often creates.
CV & Education
Qualifications and training
2009 - MA Glass (Distinction), University of Sunderland, Sunderland
Solo exhibitions
2009 - New Works in Architectural Glass, Electric Angel Gallery, Scarborough, North Yorkshire
Group exhibitions
2010 - British Glass Biennale, International Festival of Glass, Stourbridge
2010 - North Yorkshire Open Studios, Stable Studio, Scarborough, North Yorkshire
2010 - Spring Show, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle
2009 - Space and Place - Glass in Context, The Coach House Gallery, Wakefield
2009 - The Ten - MA Glass degree show, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle
2008 - New Designers, Business Design Centre, Islington, London
2005 - Drift, moving image projections, Woodend Museum, Scarborough
Curated projects
2008 - Crazy, Damn Right I'm Crazy, curatorial project with young people, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
1998 - Northern Lights, curatorial project with young people, Bluecoat Gallery - Liverpool, Ruskin Gallery - Sheffield , Cleveland Craft Centre - Middlesborough
Residencies
2003 - Artist in Residence, Sita School, Bangalore, India
Public commissions
2010 - 'Cherry' - glass panel in hospital lift, York Hospital, York, North Yorkshire
2009 - 'Everyone's Always Somewhere', ground based art waymarker, The Old Railway Line, Scarborough
Corporate commissions
2009 - Wall panels, Saint Gobain Glass UK, Eggborough, North Yorkshire
2007 - 12 glass awards, Thundercat Racing World Championships, Scarborough
Competitions, prizes and awards
2008 - Creative Industries Feasibility Study Award , Technology Strategy Board, £15,000
