Working primarily with acrylic, oils and photography, I am currently interested in urban environments and landscapes, which reflect an psychological geography of alienation, marginalization and dislocation.
Working primarily with acrylic, oils and photography, I am currently interested in urban environments and landscapes, which reflect an psychological geography of alienation, marginalization and dislocation.
I am a voyeur of Industrial estates and business parks. I visit on Sundays or in the evening when the usual inhabitants have left and the quiet spaces are occupied only by birds, rats and foxes.
This environment of large steel-framed warehouses, huge roller doors, ramps, vents and extractor fans make me feel uncomfortable and bit vulnerable. There is nobody about in this alien landscape of green, red and grey corrugated metal in a state of disrepair, squatting uncomfortably on a broken and irregular patchwork of concrete and tarmac.
Fragmented and botched uneven surfaces are colonised by tiny delicate weeds, finding an opportunity for growth among such brutal giants of storage and business.
My paintings show these large structures of steel and concrete balancing precariously on thin colour washes of paint, which drip and collapse their foundations. Expanses of white canvas suggests the space and scale of these buildings and the sense of isolation in these strange geographically marginalised, uninhabited city environments.
EDUCATION
2006 MA Fine Art Norwich School of Art and Design
2002 BA Hons Fine Art 1st Class Norwich School of Art and Design
1991 BA Hons English and American Literature 2:1 UEA
EXHIBITIONS
Groups Shows
2021 Push and the Land, Pineapple Black
2020 Sir John Hurt Art Prize
2020 Ty Pawb Open
2019 PS MIrabel 2019 Painting Prize
2019 A Little Painting Show, Dead Pigeon Gallery
2019 End of the Lines Ex Marks the Spot
2019 A Little Paiting Show OA Studios
2019 Paint Collective Interfaces Nunn's Yard Gallery
2019 Paint in Progress Anteros Foundation
2018 Wells Art Contemporary
2018 Sir John Hurt Art Prize
2016 Art Gemini
2016 NOA
2016 Contemporary Painters East, Freight Gallery Norwich
2015 Platform Open, Morphets Harrogate
2009-2014 setup & ran a business which left no time for painting
2009 Art 18/21 Norwich, Letters Home
2009 Harewood House Leeds, Home Truths
2008 Kettle’s Yard open
2008 Norwich castle Open
2007 Eyestorm Gallery Ipswich
2007 Atkinson Gallery Millfield Somerset
2007 Baskerville House Birmingham
2006 Axis Gallery Urban Spaces: the ideal, real and obsolete
2006 Norwich School Art & Design MA Show
2005 Martin Last Gallery Zurich
2005 The Cut Halesworth Suffolk
2005 Roar Gallery Norwich
2005 The Art of Love Oxo Tower London
2004 The Fringe at The Factory Norwich
2004 Salthouse Norfolk
2003 The Fringe at The Factory Norwich
RESIDENCIES
2020/21 Gun Brewery Sussex
SOLO SHOWS
2010 Theatre Royal Norwich
2008 Horace Blue Gallery Norwich
2007 Tricycle Gallery London
COMMISIONS
2007 Baskerville House Birmingham for Target Follow
2007 Madeira HPB
2005 Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
ACHIEVEMENTS:
2003 short-listed Bloomberg New Contemporaries