Practice mind-map, 2020
Lives and works in Hove, East Sussex
I am a painter who makes large-scale installations. They are portals into other worlds. Some works are participatory, others are like a trompe l’oeil. Buoyant and colourful they relate to the theatre, the interplay of boundaries and discuss the notion of the Renaissance framing/window in painting. I use industrial plastics juxtaposed with domestic, everyday plastics that are deflated and reused into future works. The materials hold a tactility, which against the sheer backdrop of their imposing scale creates for a curious encounter. Recently I have been researching the history of colour, looking at Werner’s ‘Nomenclature Of Colours’ from 1814 and reading James Fox’s ‘The World According to Colour’. I have been interested in how I can use contained or infused colour from packaging to have a dialogue with painted colour, expanding on conversations of translucency, saturation and plasticity.
I am currently on the Executive Committee of Artists’ Union England (I am also one of the founding members).
Education 2025 Brighton University, Brighton - PGCE in Secondary Art and Design 2013 The Slade School of Fine Art, London - MFA Painting (Merit) 2011 Chelsea College of Arts, London - Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art (Merit) 2004 Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh - BA (Hons) Drawing and Painting (2.1) 2001 Camberwell College of Arts, London - BTEC Foundation in Art and Design (Distinction)
Shortlists 2014 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014 The Derek Hill Foundation Scholarship, The British School at Rome 2013 The AIR mini residency, Kings Cross, London 2011 The Clifford Chance Sculpture Prize, London
Solo Exhibtions 2004 Amber Arts, Edinburgh
Two Man Exhibitions 2022 ‘Platforms and Portals’, two-man show with Elizabeth Meadows, The White Box Gallery, London 2018 'Here and There', two-man show with Matt Tarran, Gallery Lock In, Brighton 2017 'SPLIT (land) SCAPES', two-man show with Anja Borowicz, Gallery Lock In, Brighton 2013 'Talk to her', two-man show with Lucy Boyle, Holy Trinity Church, Prince Consort Road, London 2012 'Store-See-Predict', collaboration with musician, Chris Corocan, The Slade Research Centre, UCL, London 2011 'Slade at Testbed 1', two-man show with Cecily Dryden, Testbed, Battersea, London
Selected Group Exhibitions 2025 ‘The Nomenclature of Colours V’, curated by Jo Volley and Stephanie Nebbia, The Slade, UCL, London 2024 ‘The Nomenclature of Colours III’, curated by Jo Volley and Stephanie Nebbia, The Slade, UCL, London 2023 ‘Side Salad’, curated by Sarah Pager, The Occasionale, East Sussex 2019 ‘Riot!’, SEAS – Socially Engaged Art Salon, BMECP Centre, Brighton 2018 'The whole is other (than the sum of its parts)' ONCA, Brighton 2016 'Pool', The Griffin Gallery, London 2015 'Fidget', Brighton Digital Festival, APEC, Brighton 2014 ‘SEM: Socially Engineered Machine’, The Control Room, Bristol, (supported by Bristol City Council) 2014 ‘The bARTer Shop’, Walthamstow, London (supported by Waltham Forest London Borough Council) 2014 'Studio. Tomorrow. Buy me things like machines', East Streets Arts, London 2013 'Slice', Hanmi Gallery, London 2013 ‘The Big Draw’, Walthamstow, London (supported by Waltham Forest London Borough Council) 2013 'Midden', Vulpes Vulpes, Bermondsey, London 2013 'MFA/MA The Slade School of Fine Art Degree Show', London 2013 'Cities Methodologies', UCL Urban Laboratory, The Slade Research Centre, London 2012 'And you, what do you WORSHIP?', The Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Church, London 2011 'Chelsea Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art Summer Show', Chelsea College of Arts, London 2009 Deptford X, Childers Street Open Studios London 2008 Café Gallery, Southwark Park, London 2006 ‘Anominous’, curated by Nomi Art, Leamington Spa 2006 Battersea Contemporary Arts Fair, London 2006 Café Gallery, Southwark Park, London 2005 Arts Unwrapped, Childers Street Open Studios, London 2005 FOCAL mix (selected by Phillip Hughes and Ann F Jones, Curator of Projects, Hayward Gallery, London), Festival of Contemporary Art and Light, Ruthin, North Wales 2005 Ernst and Young: ‘Art For Children’, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen 2005 ‘Visual Arts Scotland, Society of Scottish Artists and The Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour’, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh 2004 Panik Gallery, Killearn, Glasgow 2004 Transmission Gallery, Glasgow 2004 ‘Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show’, Edinburgh 2004 The Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh 2004 Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh 2003 Las Bellas Artes, Universidad de Castilla de La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain 2001 ‘BTEC Foundation Exhibition’, Camberwell College of Arts, London
Teaching Experience 2025 Downlands Community School, Hassocks 2025 Burgess Hill Academy, Burgess Hill 2025 Heathfield Community School, Heathfield - STEAM workshop 2025 Brantridge Primary School, SEMH school for boys, Staplefield - Brusho workshop 2024 Phoenix Gallery, Brighton - LEAP then LOOK workshop 2024 Davisons CE High School for Girls, Worthing 2024 Brighton College, Brighton - Mural painting on garages with Year 7s 2022 Aldrington C of E Primary School, Hove - Developed and ran a series of workshops for all years for a week to coincide with ‘Faith in Arts’ week 2014 ‘The bARTer Shop’, an artist run pop-up creative makerspace with Anja Borowicz, offering artworks and skills for the public to buy, barter, observe or learn, Hoe Street, Walthamstow, London (supported by Waltham Forest London Borough Council) 2013 ‘The Big Draw’, workshops for children and adults, Hoe Street, Walthamstow, London (supported by Waltham Forest London Borough Council) 2013 ‘Cosmetic’, workshops for adults making clay pastels with Anja Borowicz, Institute of Making, UCL, London
Contributed to UBATO’s Spring 2025 newsletter (UBATO Spring 2025 - 8 'Raising the Profile' by UBATO - Issuu)