Opening night of Standpoint Gallery exhibition, Sculpture of Site, Object of Play (February, 2020)

Opening night of Standpoint Gallery exhibition, Sculpture of Site, Object of Play (February, 2020)

My research is interested in the idea of adaptation.

I consider the way we intuitively wrap, stack, tie and slot materials together around us and the way that nature creeps back into every part of urban space. It is about the perception of geometry, pattern, and the elements while moving through transitory spaces, such as corridors, underpasses, and the walkways between buildings.

I aim to make people more aware of the spaces around them by framing the details that are often overlooked. For example, the way that light flickers in-between railings when you move past them. I focus on those points where there is a discrepancy between what we think we see and what we are actually seeing. I use architectural materials - neon, stone, glass, concrete and steel – combining these in my works to consider urban spaces as systems composed of balance, weight, and fragility. Recently I have begun combining materials found in the artist's studio such as paint and silicone alongside printed media to create sculptures using layers of material. I layer and collage together to investigate our relationship with the built environment, how this is changing and how we are caught between states of flux and stability. I do this by creating works that are layers upon layers of print, precariously or imposingly balanced on one point, by using more fragile materials to prop up heavier masses, or by unusual combinations of materials such as the submersion of neon into water.


Recently, I have been making works about how virtual space is navigated and works that highlight situations where society is overloaded by the media and where a machine has taken over and caused errors or glitches in the materials. I am interested in the way that natural phenomena such as water and light affect our experience of the world around us. Water represents the passing of time. In my current research, I am focusing on the importance of water within cities and in the duality, that exists between water as a beautiful material that is difficult to control and water as something that is increasingly threatening. Underpinning all my work are the themes of time, climate change, and urban development in the context of new technologies and digital culture. I am interested in humanity’s ever-increasing reliance on technology and in the flaws and details within this technology. 

CV

EDUCATION

2021- current PhD candidate, University of Gloucestershire 

2017-2019:    MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art.

2009: Exchange. Kyoto Seika University, Japan

2006-2010:    BA Honours Sculpture, Glasgow School of Art

CURRENT WORK 

2021: University of Gloucestershire. Lecturer in Fine Art  
2012: Cambridge University Museums. Artist educator 

PREVIOUS WORK

2019-2021: University of Gloucestershire. Associate Lecturer in Fine Art

2018- 2019: Royal College of Art.  Workshop supervisor.  

2011- 2015: Futurecity. Assistant Project Manager.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017:  Ugly Duck, London. Constructed Reality

2013: Tower 42, London. Volume

2011: Makers Gallery, Cambridge. Transition

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS  

2023:   Casting Shadows. AceArts, Somerton with Royal Society of Sculptors.

Fragments of a Lost Future. White Conduit Projects, London.

Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition at York Art Gallery

La Yareta Culture Centre, Chile. La Wayaka Current

Wanderland. Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens with RSS.

On The Edge. Royal Society of Sculptors, London.

2022: Changing Atmospheres. Hestercombe Gallery, Somerset.

Unlit Path, Hardwick Gallery.

2021: 50/50. University of East London Way Out East Gallery.

Plus One. Hoxton, London.

Landscape Portrait: Now and Then. Hestercombe Gallery., Somerset.

2020: Discerning Eye. Judges Selection by Jo Baring 

Ori, Berlin. Utopie

Summer Exhibition. Royal Society of Sculptors.

Mark Tanner Sculpture Award Residency Presentation Standpoint Gallery, London.

2019: Purchase Prize Finalist Exhibition. Ingram Collection at the Cello Factory, London. 

Graduate Show. Royal College of Art.

Teaser Royal College of Art Courtyard Gallery. The Slade and RCA.

Everything you ever wanted to know about sculpture. South London Gallery.

2018: Graduate Exhibition. Anise Gallery.

Summer Exhibition. Palazzo de Zenobio, Venice.

2017: Bursary Award Exhibition Royal Society of Sculptors, London.

Lumen School of Light.Ugly Duck, London.

2016: Beneath the Surface. The Undercroft Norwich.

Studiobook. Mark Devereux Projects at Artwork Atelier, Manchester.

2015: Eureka. Mile End Art Pavilion.

2014: Demolition. Aid and Abet, Cambridge.

Pioneer. Golden Thread Gallery, Connecticut.

2013: Group Show Anise Gallery, London.

2012: Iwakura The Briggait Glasgow.

2011: Blurred Boundaries The Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh. 

2010: Glasgow Fleeto. Shoreditch Town Hall, London.

Glasgow School of Art, Degree Show. The Mackintosh Building, Glasgow

2009: Kyoto Seika University Group Show. Muromachi Art Court, Kyoto.

PERMANENT PUBLIC ART  

2011: St George’s Cross, Glasgow. Underpass

REPRESENTATION

2020:  Artiq

SELECTED TEMPORARY PUBLIC ART + COMMISSIONS 

2023: Fora, Southwark, London commission with Subject Matter Art

Hestercombe Gallery. Commission for outdoor public sculpture

2021: Bristol Circus City Festival. Set Design

2017: Veil/Unveil. The National Trust, Eastbury Manor House. Glow commissioned by Creative Barking and Dagenham

Orrery. Jesus College, Cambridge.

2015: Raindance Film Festival. Awards commission

Fitzwilliam Museum, King’s College, Peterhouse, Cambridge. e-luminate Festival

2014: Perception. Art:Language: Location at Cambridge University Law Faculty

2013: Wysing Arts Festival in Collaboration with Hollow Mountain

2012: Void. Glasgow International

Point of View. Futurecity Visualise Commission at Cambridge Institute of Astronomy

2011: Retreat. BBC Scotland Red Shed Project.

Light Corridor. Saatchi Art Trail at Big Chill Festival, Hereford

AWARDS + BURSARIES 

2024: Aesthetica Art Prize Longlist

2023: CCRI Foundation funding for residency in Chile

2022: Eaton Fund

2020: Arts Council England funding

2018: Scholarship: International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Venice

2018: Villiers David Travel Grant to visit Iceland

2016: Bursary Award. Royal Society of Sculptors, London

SELECTED RESIDENCIES + WORKSHOPS  

2023: La Wayaka Current, Residency in Chile

2022: La Wayaka Current, Residency in Panama.

2021: Zabludowicz Masterclass

2020: Ingram Collection Purchase Prize Residency at Hestercombe Gallery.

Mark Tanner Sculpture Award Residency

2018: Tomas Saraceno. Aerocene Workshop with RCA. Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Kurt Switters Merz Barn Summer. Residency, The Lake District

2016: Studiobook, Mark Devereux Projects, Manchester

2014: Sustainability Residency, Cambridge

2011: AA2A, Cambridge School of Art

2009: Urban Spaces Residency, Ars Hame, Riihimaki, Finland

SELECTED PAST VISITING LECTURING + TEACHING 

2021: University of East London. Visiting Lecturer.

West Herts College. Visiting lecturer and tutor. 

2020: University of Bedfordshire. Delivered lecture.

City Lit. Visiting lecturer for Conscious Isolation.

Royal College of Art. Delivered Professional practice lecture

2019: Hello Wood, Hungary. Workshop Leader

Falmouth University. Guest speaker about sustainability 

University for the Creative Arts. Visiting lecturer. Delivered one day session. Artist talk and critical feedback session

University of the Arts London Camberwell. Visiting tutor. Delivered one day workshop on public art

2018: University for the Creative Arts. Visiting lecturer and tutor. Delivered one day session. Artist talk and tutorials

University of Gloucestershire.  Visiting lecturer. Two day sessions. Artist talk/ tutorials and public art workshop 

University of Brighton. Art lecturer and visiting tutor. Delivered one day session. Artist talk and tutorials

University of Westminster. Visiting tutor. Delivered one day session. Artist talk on public art and tutorials

2011-2016: University of Cambridge. Guest lecturer. History of art/architecture and Art Markets Course, Judge Business School

2015: Royal British Society of Sculptors.  Workshop leader. Running a series of workshops

2013: Goldsmiths University of London. Guest speaker for Creative Mapping. Delivered one lecture 

2012: Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University. Visiting Lecturer. Delivered artist talk

Other  
2020: Conscious Isolation: Lectures, critical feedback sessions and open calls with Samuel Zealey.

Working in collaboration with University of East London and The Ingram Collection.