‘Movement is the figure of love, incapable of stopping at a particular being, and rapidly passing from one to another.’

Bataille, G, ‘Visions of Excess Selected Writings, 1927-1939’

My practice encompasses painting, sculpture and assemblage, using recurrent materials and motifs such as fur, mushrooms, circles, locks of hair and pearls. Initially these objects appear to be drawn from the rich tapestry of images presented to us in fairy tales and myths. However on closer inspection, these isolated signifiers, divorced from their original context, often reveal darker, more disturbing undertones, through their suggestive juxtapositions; confusing the erotic and the abject, the sacred and the profane. It is this productive instability, which I seek to activate within my wider practice.

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Biography

Born 18/12/83, Salisbury, UK

Lives and works in Bristol, UK

2003- 06 BA Hons Art and Visual Culture, Bristol School of Arts Media and Design, Bristol

2002-03 Foundation Diploma in Art Media and Design, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth,  Bournemouth

Awards:

2009-2010 The Rootstein Hopkins Artists’ Award, Spike Island, Bristol

2006-2007 UWE Junior Fellowship, Spike Island, Bristol

Solo Exhibitions/projects:

2010 The Flight of O, Spike Island, Bristol

2009 The Sickly Trickle, Trove Projects, Birmingham

2007 Cabinet, Windows204, Gloucester Road, Bristol

Selected Group Exhibitions/projects:

2009 Alternating Between the Two, Exhibit X, London

The Seed, Plan 9, Bristol

2008 Primer, Fellowship show, Spike Island, Bristol

2007 The Wrong Place, Bristol Pro Cathedral, Bristol

The Hammer Party, Fellowship Space, Spike Island Studios, Bristol

The Magpies Foray, Bath Fringe, Walcot Chapel, Bath

2005 Embellish, The Foyer, Faculty of Arts, Media and Deign UWE, Bristol

2004 Frame Academy, The Royal West Of England Academy, Bristol

Other Projects:

2009 Show me heaven, Research project in collaboration with Brin Frost, Athens, Greece

2008-09 Plan 9, Member of artist led group, Bristol

2008 The Far West Metro Store, Art worker, Arnolfini and Plan 9 Off Site Project, Bristol

The Caravan Stage Company, Theatre production residency Thassos, Greece

Bibliography:

2010 The Flight of O, Limited edition monograph produced in collaboration with modern activity, with texts by Marie-Anne McQuay, Laurence Figgis and Brin Frost.