As an artist I try to capture the impact of our lives in the world around us. Like benign ghosts or indistinct shadows that our souls leave in this world. A definite presence but indistinct and ethereal. An echo of our existence. My preferred medium is the pinhole camera, I find it a gentle and organic way of imprinting an image, allowing a scene to unfold slowly. Unlike the lens based cameras which
As an artist I try to capture the impact of our lives in the world around us. Like benign ghosts or indistinct shadows that our souls leave in this world. A definite presence but indistinct and ethereal. An echo of our existence. My preferred medium is the pinhole camera, I find it a gentle and organic way of imprinting an image, allowing a scene to unfold slowly. Unlike the lens based cameras which are obvious and often invasive, by using the pinhole, I do not become as Susan Sontag once said 'a hunter with a camera'. Instead my subjects remain unviolated, sacred, protected. The resulting images are timeless, carrying a sense of someone no longer there. With black and white film there is a piercing pathos, a stab of longing and nostalgia. Using colour film polarises this into a celebration of light, colour and movement. Yin and yang of storytelling, a different way of looking.
Education
2005 BA Hons in Photography : University of Portsmouth
Solo exhibitions
2012 - Shhhh... gASP, Portsmouth
2009 - Apprehension, Aspex Gallery - emerging artist space, Portsmouth
2006 - Sense, Aspex Gallery - emerging artist space, Portsmouth
Selected Group exhibitions
2017 - Essence, gASP, Portsmouth
2017 - Small Faces, Showcase Gallery, Southampton
2015 - MMMother, Darnley Gallery, London
2014 - White Christmas, The Design House, Dublin
2013 - Rock Paper Scissors gASP, Portsmouth
2013 - Duplicity, The Transition Gallery, London
2012 - International Juried Exhibition, The Brenda Taylor Gallery, New York
2010 - Secret Postcards - International Exhibition, gASP, Portsmouth
2009 - Private Collection, Magpie Gallery, Dublin
2007 - The London Group - Open Show, Menier Gallery, London
2005 - Fresh Art, Truman Brewery London
2004 - One Foot Square, Lomo Gallery, London
Projects
2008 - The Art of Listening - cross generational project, gASP, Portsmouth
Ongoing
1000 Lakeside. North Harbour (IBM HQ)
Open Studios, Art Space, Portsmouth
Competitions
3rd in Internationl Portfolio Awards
Publications
Catalogues for Freize, Fresh Art, and the London Group Open
Reviewed in The Critical Friend by Michael Bartlet, Published by Transition Gallery
