I use objects and text to research and develop ideas. My practice looks at the relationship between the historic or already existing, and the contemporary or new and it has both a personal narrative and a broader reference to early modernism and the built environment. I am interested in the relationship between form, function, art and craft and in the fragmentary and transient nature of materials.
I use objects and text to research and develop ideas. My practice looks at the relationship between the historic or already existing, and the contemporary or new and it has both a personal narrative and a broader reference to early modernism and the built environment. I am interested in the relationship between form, function, art and craft and in the fragmentary and transient nature of materials. I like to work with neglected or once-functioning objects and through a transformational process, which often involves combining them with something new or custom-made, shift the perception of their meaning or value.
Solo exhibitions
2016 - if not winter, MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) London, Omnia Somnia, University of La Cambre, Brussels, Utility Series, Curious prjects, Eastbourne 2015 - surely a sign, Trinity 7, Hastings 2014 - the nothing new, Strange Cargo, Folkestone, time spins, one one six gallery, Tenterden, OMNIA SOMNIA, UpDown Gallery, Ramsgate 2012/13 - Jesus Wept, neon text installation, St Leonards on Sea 2011 - Institute of Play and other Collections, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne 2010 - Institute of Play, V&A Museum of Childhood, London, Measure and Intuition, Canary Wharf, London 2009 - Metropolis, Herbert Read Gallery, UCCA, Canterbury 2008 - Intimate Geometry, Project Space, Jerwood Gallery, London 2007 - Matrix, one one six gallery, Tenterden 2006 - Monochromes, Lomasdavies, London 2005 - Light Waves, James Hockey Gallery, University of Surrey, Farnham 2004 - Revealing Light, Sassoon Gallery, Folkestone 2002 - Paintings, Tollergården, Melbu, Norway 2001 - New Paintings, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea
Group exhibitions
2017 - Only Connect, Elbruton, Seville, Helsinki Contemporary, Helsinki, Soft Geometry, Arthouse1, London 2016 - Habitus, Observer Building, Hastings 2015 - Bring Your Own Beamer, Folkestone 2014 - Seeing Beckett , Liverpool John Moores University, University of Hereford, Cities of Ash, g39, Cardiff, Art 14, London 2013 - Pnue, Electro Studios project Space, St Leonards on Sea 2012 - International Sculpture, Sanyi Museum, Taiwan 2011 - Metropolis, RBS Gallery, London 2009 - Art Salon, NL Studios, Amsterdam 2003 - Galleria Uusitalo, Helsinki 2002 - Colour White, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea 2000 - Art Futures, Barbican, London
Commissions
2016 - Diving Tower, ESPS, St Leonards on Sea, UCA Canterbury 2014 - the nothing new, Strange Cargo, Cheriton Lights, Folkestone 2012 - Jesus Wept, The Space, St Leonards on Sea, 2010 - Institute of Play, V&A Museum of Childhood, London