From being a child, I have always been drawn to the arts. Graduating from Manchester School of Art with a BA & MA in fine art in 2009 I set up a studio whilst working as a docent at the Whitworth Art Gallery. I have been greatly influenced by my travels and in 2011 I began a series of International Artist Residencies creating situation-specific installations for art galleries globally, including the Sichuan Academy of Fine Art and the 501 Artspace, Chongqing, China, The Finnish Academy of Fine Art, Helsinki, Finland, Monster Truck Gallery, Ireland and the CFCCA in Manchester, UK. When in Manchester I became a Co-director at Mirabel Studios Gallery and began lecturing as Course Coordinator and Senior Lecturer at The Independent Art. In 2018 I moved to Athole House Studio in Scotland using it as a base to create whilst continuing to exhibit and lecture both nationally and internationally. Recently I have relocated to Cardinal Red Studio, Virginia in the USA where I am producing a new body of work based around the idea of Apophenia which I will start exhibiting soon.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

As an artist I want to allow the observer a space to contemplate the world in ways that they have perhaps not considered before. My installation work engages directly with its situation, allowing people to re-evaluate their relationship with the spaces around them. Playful sculptures take familiar objects and translating them into new and unexpected forms. Whilst my paintings draw on facets of memory, abstract, but suggestively familiar. My influences include Frances Bacon, Chaim Soutine, Richard Smith, Lucio Fontana, Robert Irwin, James Turrell, Mike Nelson & Phyllida Barlow.