STATEMENT:
In Jonathan Franzen’s How to Be Alone, the author finds his burgeoning success and invitations to all the best parties, “not as an opportunity to introduce myself to the world, but as an opportunity to introduce the world to myself”. The same is true of the worst parties and enduring failure. For years, agonised by loneliness and the
desire to be alone, I told myself when leaving the house for an invite at least one thing will happen that will make it worthwhile. This one thing has been the cornerstone to all my work.
Informed by the surrealist object, conceptual art and graphic design, I have a strong inclination toward quotidian, industrial, found or obsolete objects and the ephemeral. The often semi-autobiographical works, expressed in various media including sound, video, text, sculpture and lens-based images, exhibited in Germany, USA, Brazil, Columbia and widely across the UK, explore themes of nostalgia, time, memory and the act of observation itself within the small poetry of everyday life.
I find it fascinating how we communicate with one another. The motivations to communicate. The why of it. The dishonesty / honesty. The shame of it. The inherent difficulty and simple joy.
EDUCATION:
Falmouth University, MA Fine Art, 2024-
Bath Spa University, BA (Hons) Fine Art, 1998-1999 [dropped out]
UWE/Weston College, DipHE Creative Arts, 1996-1998
Sutton Coldfield College, BTEC Graphic Design, 1993-1995
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EXHIBITIONS » INTERVENTIONS » INSTALLATIONS » FOOTAGE » PUBLICATIONS
All the Time and Then Never Again EP
3 May 2024
Sound art
reBALANCE
12–25 February 2024
The Hetling Room - Bath Medical Museum, Hot Bath St., Bath
Ways of Seeing
29 August–3 September 2022
44AD, Abbey St., Bath
Sonora
18 November–18 December 2021
Rua Pelotas 400, Vila Mariana, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Lunch usually consists of a sandwich of thin bread
The Dining Room Table Years (2010-2020)
29 September–13 October 2021
Museum of Bath at Work. Julian Rd. Bath
Solo exhibition of art
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Sweet ‘Art Presents - The Art Hunt
14 September–31 October 2020
Brick Lane, London
What Is Life For?
29 August–1 September 2019
Spruce Goose Launderette, Margaret's Buildings, Bath
Radiophrenia 87.9FM / DAB+ / online
13–26 May 2019
Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
WordPower: Language as Medium
18 April 2019
Library X, London
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PSYCHO
18 February 2018
Broken Grey Wires, Manchester
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The Brain Smelled Of Bitter Almonds - re-staging
14 February 2018
Sackville Gardens, Manchester
Pay & Display
4–15 February 2018
Centrespace Gallery, 6 Leonard Lane, Bristol
Drone week
5–13 August 2017
SoundArt Radio 102.5 FM, Dartington Lane, Totnes
Wellbeing
18 February 2017
Old School Surgery, Rectory Fields, Cranbrook, Kent
Playground
24-28 October 2016
Freshford School, High Street, Freshford
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Art:Language:Location
13–29 October 2016
Scruffs Hairdressing, 68-69 Bridge Street, Cambridge
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World Listening Day
18 July 2015
Sonic Terrain, Medellín, Colombia
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Nottingham Street Art Festival
19 June–11 July 2015
Surface Gallery, 16 Southwell Road, Nottingham
Brooklyn Acoustic Ecology Festival
16–18 April 2015
The Old Stone House, 336 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Forbidden
6–8 January 2015
The Daniel Libeskind Space, 166-220 Holloway Road, London
Modern Panic V
7–16 November 2014
Apiary Studios, 458 Hackney Road, London
State of Flux
18 July 2014
Create, Smeaton Road, Bristol
World Listening Day
18 July 2014
Sonic Terrain, Medellín, Colombia
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Art Experimenta Screening with artists' Q&A
17 June 2014
TriSpace Gallery, 100 Clements Road, London
SoundArt Show BCB 106.6FM
6 June 2014
11 Rawson Road, Bradford
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One Pound Cinema
23 October 2013
University of Central Lancashire, Preston
Marketing Is Violence
18 February 2013
Not So Noble books
Drink Me
14 December 2012
Empty Shop HQ, Framwellgate Bridge, Durham
Hamburg Vending Machine
21 June 2012
Hamburg, Germany
(In)Xclusion
25–26 February 2012
Patrick Studios, Saint Mary's Lane, Mabgate, Leeds
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On The Outside Looking Further Out
26 September–2 October 2011
Mortuary chapel. Walcot St. Bath
Solo exhibition of art