My practise is rooted in exploring the media delivery of information that the digital age allows and testing the fluidity of material to exploit the inherent resonance of objects. My source material is war, propaganda, capitalism, consumerism and social conditioning. Information absorbed is filtered through classical elements and then carefully constructed using a museological language to present a
My practise is rooted in exploring the media delivery of information that the digital age allows and testing the fluidity of material to exploit the inherent resonance of objects. My source material is war, propaganda, capitalism, consumerism and social conditioning. Information absorbed is filtered through classical elements and then carefully constructed using a museological language to present a new entity.
I am currently exploring the process of slip casting objects and then pit-firing them - "I’m interested in the object as artefact and the presentation of objects. The objects I am interested in have either a personal connection, or are related to the everyday; or are socially or politically charged". Recent ideas have been
fuelled by reading George Ritzers "The McDonaldisation of Society" and Edmund De Waal's "The White Road".
Information
Upcoming Exhibitions
Salford Museum & Art Gallery, Ordsall Hall - July 2017
Working Class Movement Library 2017
Selected Solo exhibitions
2015 OPEN HOUSE Federation House 26.3.2015
2014 Federation House - Fire and Forget - 13.03.2014
2011 Manchester MRI "A Letter to Lowry"
2008 Salford Royal Hospital "Its Our Salford"
2008 Stockport Art Gallery M12-11
2005 Farmillio Fiumano, London
Funding and Awards
2016/17 Arts Council Grants for the Arts
2014/15 Arts Council Grants for the Arts
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Selected Exhibitions
2016 -Aesthetica Art Prize - York St Marys
2015 - ONPHOTOcopy - 44AD - Fringe Arts Bath
2015 - Art Vend - Oriel Wrecsam - Wrecsam
2015 - Dreaming of New York - Horsefall, Manchester
2015 Broken Grey Wires 'Make Windows Where There Are Walls' - Notting Hill Art Club, London
2013 Landfillart - Pennsylvania, USA
2012 John Moores Painting Prize 2012 Walker Art Gallery Liverpool
2010 The Killing Jar AWOL Studios Manchester
2009 Hope Mill Open Studios - Manchester
2004 Salford Museum and Art Gallery
Competitions
2016 Aesthetica Art Art Prize - Longlisted exhibitor
2012 John Moores Painting Prize 2012
2008 BP Portrait Award - 2nd Stage Entry
2006 John Moores Exhibition Stage 2 Entry 2006
2006 The Sefton Open Atkinson Gallery Southport
Residencies /Employment
Artist in Residence Salford Museum & Art Gallery 2016 - 2017
Artist in Residence LIME art April 2011 - 2014
Art Mentor Pool Arts - 2009 - 2016
Commissions
2015 Art Vend - Oriel Wrecsam
2013 Rochdale Infirmary - Lime Arts
2010 Gorton Visual Arts - Beyer Peacock
Press/Publications
Future Now - Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology 2016 ISBN
Art Monthly 386 May 2015 OPEN HOUSE - Eleanor Clayton
Corridor 8 online edition 2014 link
Sunday Telegraph 2013
Chasing your Tale 2012 link
Salford Advertiser 2008
City Life Manchester 2004
City Life Manchester 2003
Manchester Evening News 2003
Education
1998 - 2000
City College Manchester HNC Sound Recording
1996 - 1998
Manchester Metropolitan Interactive & Broadcast
University Media (2 years)
1995 - 1996
Manchester Metropolitan Art Foundation Course
University
1989 -1995
Bacup and Rawtenstall 5 A levels, 9 GCSE’s
Grammar School