About

Artist Statement
My practice is predominantly sculptural based, often utilising elements of installation and performative methodologies. The work explores the potential of materials to further narrative contexts, utilising the imbued meaning in objects as a part of the process. The making and journey of the works form an important part of the practice. Personal experience and histories, with elements of common, shared experience, form the catalyst of the ideas.
I make work that celebrates, creating visually rich and engaging environments while providing threads for the audience to unravel and explore. There is often an element of playfulness to the works through word-play, in-jokes, bright colours or juxtapositions, it may seem to not take itself too seriously but this provides an accessibility to the work to explore the narratives at play.
Current themes focus on an exploration and reflection on childhood experiences of seaside holidays and the key objects, locations, journeys and landscapes and the resonance of these on my experience of family and relationships. These themes provide a platform for contemplating loss, nostalgia and landscapes of fun, the places and ways in which we escape and seek joy away from the everyday, while celebrating the excitement and uniqueness of these places.
CV
Education
2024 - MA Fine Art (pending)  -  Falmouth University
2006 - BA Hons Fine Art  -  University of East London
2003 - Foundation Art & Design  -  University of Northampton

Teaching
2008 - Current -  Foundation Art & Design Lecturer  -  Truro College
2008 - Current - Assorted Creative Workshops  -  Various
Solo / Joint Exhibitions
2024 - Super Fun Tyre  -  Ships & Castles (Disused pool), Falmouth
2023 - Funderdome  -  CAS, Andover (with Kialy Tihngang)
2022 - Deus Ex 2p Machina  -  Auction House, Redruth
2019 - I’m Westward Ho!  -  Back Lane West, Redruth
2017 - Promontory  -  South West Showcase, PCA Gallery
2016 - Ham Fisted Half Cocked  -  Back Lane West, Redruth
2014 - Get it Here  -  The Fish Factory, Falmouth
2012 - Man Mountain  -  Gallery 333, Exeter
2012 - Nail Houses  -  Stapleton Road Tavern Art Space, Bristol
2008 - Transition 08  -  Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
2005 - Extrusions  -  Richard Wilson's Slice of Reality, North Greenwich
Commissions & Projects
2022 - Deus Ex 2p Machina  -  A live art event in arcades across the UK
2019 - I’m Westward Ho!  -  artwork driving across the UK
2019 - ‘RGB’ ITV Creates Ident  -  Creation of a nationally broadcast Ident for ITV as part of ITV creates
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 - Out With The Old, In With The New  -  Studio Kind, Barnstaple
2023 - Under / Over  -  G12, Redruth
2019 - Plymouth Art Weekender  -  Citywide, Plymouth
2019 - RWA Sculpture Open  -  Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2019 - Small  -  The Old Bakery, Truro
2018 - Conjunction  -  CMR, Redruth
2018 - POWERCUT  -  SET, London
2017 - Paradice Lost  -  Plymouth Art Weekender, Plymouth
2016 - Futures  -  Inland Art Festival, Redruth
2016 - Fight for what we have left  -  The Exchange, Tremough Campus, Penryn
2015 - Staging the Artwork  -  Article Gallery, Birmingham
2015 - Electric River  -  The Fish Factory, Falmouth, Cornwall
2014 - Assemble Now  -  Inland Art Festival, Redruth, Cornwall
2014 - All for Nothing  -  Penryn Arts Festival, Penryn
2013 - Limbo  -  The Coffin Store, Truro
2011 - Exeter Contemporary Open 2011  -  Phoenix Gallery, Exeter
2011 - This Impossibly Conjured World  -  Glove Box, Bristol
2011 - Risk Assessment  -  The ViewTube, East London
2010 - UKYA01 Derby  -  UK Young Artists, Silk mill, Derby
2010 - Lines of Desire  -  Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown
2009 - Gloria  -  BASH, London
2009 - Staged  -  Gallery RFD, Swainsboro, GA, USA
2008 - The End Of The Line  -  The Exchange Gallery, Penzance
2008 - Back From The Boondocks  -  AVA Gallery, London
2008 - Keeping Your End Up   -  Auto Italia South East, London

Publications & Writing
2024 - Super Fun Tyre  -  Exhibition Catalogue
2024 - SWS - Southwest Showcase retrospective publication
2022 - Front Page / Back Page / Centrefold  -  Artwork Feature
2021 - Synesthesia  -  Online publication, Plymouth University and Cultivator
2019 - I’m Westward Ho!  -  Artist multiple publication
2016 - Ham Fisted Half Cocked  -  Retrospective book
2011 - Hesa Inprint Magazine Issue 5 & 6  -  Features
2008 - Post Magazine Issue 3  -  Feature
2008 - Lines  -  Concertina Cloth Bound Artists Book
Residencies
2024 - CMR, Redruth
2019 – Back Lane West, Redruth
2016 - Here Creative Centre, Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland
2016 - Back Lane West, Redruth
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