ARTIST STATEMENT:
Interested in domesticity, time and memory, these diaristic works executed using creative writing, intervention, autotheory, graphic design, sound, film, found objects and vernacular photography, have been exhibited in Germany, USA, Brazil, Columbia and across the UK.
In Jonathan Franzen’s How to Be Alone (p88), the author found his forays into the world to support his work ‘Felt less as if I’m introducing myself to the world than as if I’m introducing the world to myself’, and similarly, agonised by loneliness and the desire to be alone, I tell myself when leaving the house for any invite at least one thing will happen to make it worthwhile. One fleeting moment to experience and note amid the small poetry of everyday life. Every project seems to begin this way, begins out in the world.
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
DONATION:
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EXHIBITIONS » INTERVENTIONS » INSTALLATIONS » FOOTAGE » PUBLICATIONS
Every Door I’ve Lived Behind Closing: The Final Door
20 March 2026
Film screening. Bath Film Society
Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution, Bath, UK
These Things Have Been Trained to Dry Themselves
14 March 2026
Bath Guildhall Market, Bath, UK
All the Time and Then Never Again EP
3 May 2024
Bandcamp, online
reBALANCE
12–25 February 2024
The Hetling Room, Bath Medical Museum, Hot Bath St., Bath, UK
Ways of Seeing
29 August–3 September 2022
44AD, Abbey St., Bath, UK
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)
Solo exhibition → Exhibition blog
29 September–13 October 2021
Museum of Bath at Work, Bath, UK
Sweet ‘Art Presents - The Art Hunt
14 September–31 October 2020
Brick Lane, London, UK
What Is Life For?
29 August–1 September 2019
Spruce Goose Launderette, Margaret's Buildings, Bath, UK
Radiophrenia 87.9FM / DAB+ / online
13–26 May 2019
Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, UK
WordPower: Language as Medium
18 April 2019
Library X, London, UK
PSYCHO
18 February 2018
Broken Grey Wires, Manchester, UK
The Brain Smelled Of Bitter Almonds - re-staging
14 February 2018
Sackville Gardens, Manchester, UK
Pay & Display
4–15 February 2018
Centrespace Gallery, 6 Leonard Lane, Bristol, UK
Drone week
5–13 August 2017
SoundArt Radio 102.5 FM, Dartington Lane, Totnes, UK
Wellbeing
18 February 2017
Old School Surgery, Kent, UK
Playground
24-28 October 2016
Freshford School, High Street, Freshford, UK
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Art:Language:Location
13–29 October 2016
Scruffs Hairdressing, 68-69 Bridge Street, Cambridge, UK
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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, UK
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, UK
Modern Panic V
7–16 November 2014
Apiary Studios, 458 Hackney Road, London, UK
State of Flux
18 July 2014
Create, Smeaton Road, Bristol, UK
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, UK
SoundArt Show BCB 106.6FM
6 June 2014
11 Rawson Road, Bradford, UK
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One Pound Cinema
23 October 2013
University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
Marketing Is Violence
18 February 2013
Not So Noble books, online
Drink Me
14 December 2012
Empty Shop HQ, Framwellgate Bridge, Durham, UK
Hamburg Vending Machine
21 June 2012
Hamburg, Germany
(In)Xclusion
25–26 February 2012
Patrick Studios, Saint Mary's Lane, Mabgate, Leeds, UK
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On The Outside Looking Further Out
26 September–2 October 2011
Mortuary chapel. Walcot St., Bath
Solo exhibition of art
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