About
Art, music and carnivalesque moments like rave can transform our shared perspective on reality. We can leave behind individualism and a dreary work overload to rediscover a collective joy away from state control.
My art practice focuses on alternate realities and portals into hidden, darker spaces used for pleasure seeking.
I’m interested in the politics of nightlife spaces, the hedonistic occurrences that punctuate the hum drum of life and the loss of self within a crowd or group.
The themes of my work are a hybrid of the real and imagined world, crossing thresholds from one reality to another and studying the altered states of the inhabitants inside.
Materiality is an important feature of the work and to give it a visual rawness I use a variety of surfaces, be it old wooden boards found in the street, deteriorated carpets or recycled plastic sheeting.
More recently I have used ready-made objects and the installations are often populated with odd or unsettling forms: a ring of 700 rubber tongues waggle and glisten, mannequin body parts are cut up, spray painted and reformed, deflated sex dolls are crammed into a Perspex box, analogue computers piled high and penetrated with pink lasers.
Education
BSC in Social Science, Edinburgh University 1994
BA in Fine Art, Art Academy London 2020
Studying MA in Fine Art, City & Guilds London Art School 2021-2023
Exhibition
2012 - Pop Art Now - group exhibition Assembly Halls, Edinburgh
2019 - Tenebris - group exhibition, Newington Library. London
2020 – Untitled – group exhibition, 155 Walworth Road, London
2020 - Graduation Show, Art Academy London
2022 - Spaces, Places & The Everyday - group exhibition, Crypt Gallery Euston
2022 - Meet Me Halfway - group exhibition, Art Pavillion, Mile End, London
2023 - Night Life. Loose Screws Collective. E8, London
2023 - Curtain Twitcher, Uncovered Collective, Garage Gallery, E17, London
2023 - UnCommon Ground - Space Collective, Koppel Project, Hampstead
2023 - Part of Space Collective, Espacio Gallery, London