Statement
Through material and form, I explore the perceived boundaries of the body within the physical and psychological spaces we inhabit — permeable frontiers, alive with the grotesque and the surreal. With imagery of absurd bodies and humorously problematic shapes found and formed through the act of painting, I employ intuitive and considered modes of working alongside observation and invention, exploring the grotesque and the disturbance of form and feeling that can be found at the interfaces between abstraction and representation, delight and disgust.
Within my work, shapes alluding to the body and bodily parts merge with everyday objects from the domestic world. The manipulation and abstraction of the human form and its distortion, fragmentation and change of state challenge the boundaries of logic and reason. By manipulating recognisable forms and objects, the familiar is made unfamiliar, alluding to a fragmented narrative beneath, simultaneously revealing and concealing, communicating and obfuscating. I am exploring the creative defiance of logical boundaries and its inherent grotesqueness in relation to the materiality of the body and how we experience inhabiting our bodies.
Exhibitions
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, June 2024
And Therein Lie the Guts..., Espacio Gallery, London, February 2024
Dropt Art Festival, Atelier Marina Nimmo, France, September 2022
The Homely Grotesque, Small House Gallery, London, December 2021
Jelly Slits, Gallery40, Brighton, September 2019
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, June 2018
On The Rocks, Space Gallery, Folkestone, October 2017
MA Fine Art Degree Show, Chelsea College of Arts, London, September 2017
Fortune, Safehouse, Peckham, London, June 2017
Make-up, Mills Centre Gallery, Highgate, London, May 2017
Art Is Not A Puzzle!, Tichborne Gallery, Brighton, May 2017
Myths, MAFA Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, London, April 2017
Trans-it, MA Interim Show, Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Arts, London, January 2017
Counter-practice Exhibition, Cookhouse Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, London, November 2016
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, June 2016
Untitled, Punctum Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, London, April 2016
Counter-practice Exhibition, Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Arts, London, November 2015
Six, Tichborne Gallery, Brighton, May 2015
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, June 2014
Education
MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Arts, 2017
BA Fine Art Painting, University of Brighton, 2001
Art Foundation Diploma, University of Gloucestershire, 1998