CV
EDUCATION
2013-15 Foundation Degree Fine Art Practice, University of Kent
2015-17 BA Fine Art, University of Kent
2017-20 MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London
SOLO SHOWS
2017 Final Show, West Kent College, Tonbridge, Kent
GROUP SHOWS
2019 MotherOther, Havelock Walk Open Studios
2018 Wavelengths, Hastings Arts Forum
2018 Exchange, Deptford, London
2016 Havelock Walk Winter Open Studios
2016 Speak Don’t Speak, Underdog Gallery, London
2016 In the Dock, Historic Dockyard, Chatham
2016 Pucker Up! Havelock Walk Open Studios
2015 Improbable Truths, Embassy Tea Gallery, London
2015 Encountering Otherness, Nucleus Arts, Chatham, Kent
2015 Cabinet of Curiosities, Maidstone Museum
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2017 Shame Show, West Kent College, Tonbridge, Kent
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Hastings Arts Forum
2013-15 Foundation Degree Fine Art Practice, University of Kent
2015-17 BA Fine Art, University of Kent
2017-20 MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London
SOLO SHOWS
2017 Final Show, West Kent College, Tonbridge, Kent
GROUP SHOWS
2019 MotherOther, Havelock Walk Open Studios
2018 Wavelengths, Hastings Arts Forum
2018 Exchange, Deptford, London
2016 Havelock Walk Winter Open Studios
2016 Speak Don’t Speak, Underdog Gallery, London
2016 In the Dock, Historic Dockyard, Chatham
2016 Pucker Up! Havelock Walk Open Studios
2015 Improbable Truths, Embassy Tea Gallery, London
2015 Encountering Otherness, Nucleus Arts, Chatham, Kent
2015 Cabinet of Curiosities, Maidstone Museum
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2017 Shame Show, West Kent College, Tonbridge, Kent
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Hastings Arts Forum
Artist statement
The materiality of my practice is complemented by an intellectual inquiry that mirrors the making process. A phenomenological approach, oriented towards the body and the senses and grounded in critical reflexivity has assisted with the developing understanding of my work as performative sculpture. The idea of objects and substances that have an existence beyond human perception appeals intellectually and materially.
My work seeks to tread a line between naïve realism, that the world is as it appears to us, and a more instinctual perception of the reality as multivalent potential. The work prioritises experience over symbolism or narrative.
There is an ever-present tension between the real and the simulation and an awareness of how society simulates the real. This leads to confusion over what is real and what is unreal, truth and fiction, resulting in an instability of meaning. Hyper-reality is where the simulation is more real than reality.
My awareness of societal and cultural frameworks informs my choice of processes and materials. In practice, orienting the methodology towards the sensate via materiality, colour and awareness of the viewer experience helps clarify a set of concerns which inform the work.
I embrace the ludic, the haptic and the heuristic. Through ‘truth to materials’ the viewer can re-visualise the familiar and re-evaluate what might be devalued within the quotidian. Spatial and temporal concerns become interwoven into the work as pieces which developed in one setting evolve and take on new life in another.
My work seeks to tread a line between naïve realism, that the world is as it appears to us, and a more instinctual perception of the reality as multivalent potential. The work prioritises experience over symbolism or narrative.
There is an ever-present tension between the real and the simulation and an awareness of how society simulates the real. This leads to confusion over what is real and what is unreal, truth and fiction, resulting in an instability of meaning. Hyper-reality is where the simulation is more real than reality.
My awareness of societal and cultural frameworks informs my choice of processes and materials. In practice, orienting the methodology towards the sensate via materiality, colour and awareness of the viewer experience helps clarify a set of concerns which inform the work.
I embrace the ludic, the haptic and the heuristic. Through ‘truth to materials’ the viewer can re-visualise the familiar and re-evaluate what might be devalued within the quotidian. Spatial and temporal concerns become interwoven into the work as pieces which developed in one setting evolve and take on new life in another.
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