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.
Selected Publications + Press + Online
Ongoing: Saatchiart.com
2024: Aesthetica Art Prize
2023: Art in and With Public(s)
On the Edge: Panel Discussion
On the Edge Podcast.
2022: Art Gazette
2021: University of East London Talk
2020: ArtQuest
2019: Subject Matter, Align
Arch Daily on Hello Wood, Hungary
2018: FAD Magazine
2017: Displacement
2016: F.R.E.E
The Times Newspaper E-luminate Festival
Glow
2015: Access Art
2014: In Conversation with Slate The Disco
Art for the Square. Futurecity
2013: Interview by Creative Mapping
2012: Creative Mapping
2011: BBC Scotland, Red Shed Project
Blurred Boundaries The Edinburgh Reporter
FAD Magazine Review of Saatchi Art Trail
2010: Article by Artist Newsletter about Glasgow School of Art Degree Show