My practice is a process of examining sorrow and joy, exploring what triggers them, how they affect us and questioning how we might navigate these emotions in our modern, media saturated, lives. Incorporating humour, honesty, reality & the ridiculous.
Works are composed from a process of self-reflection from personal experiences of sorrow and joy and from the daily minutiae that captures my attention. These fragments are drawn, collaged, painted, printed and photographed to generate collections of colour, pattern, form & language that are documented and re-appropriated into aesthetically charged compositions to energise and engage both the viewer and the space they occupy.
Outcomes vary from small paper-based collages and paintings to large scale site-specific installations, responding to the time and space in which they were created.
Materials and colour are of huge importance to me, paint, paper, wood, text & textiles encourage playful, spontaneous experimentation. A sense of ebb & flow is formed from the delicacy of paper contrasted against the strength and utilitarian properties of wood, the flow and rhythm of painted brushstrokes against the order and stability of text.
Ultimately my work aims to explore ‘what art can do’? To make us feel something, to question what makes us feel good & bad, to encourage reflection and balance and to consider how we can improve our personal well-being and those around us.
Curriculum Vitae
Lives and works in North West England
Education
2013-2016: BA (First Class Hons) Fine Art, University of Central Lancashire, Preston
2012-2013: Art & Design Foundation Degree, University of Central Lancashire, Preston
Solo Exhibitions
JOY, Grundy Gallery, Blackpool 2019
Collaborations
DETACHED,AIR Gallery, Altrincham 2019
Semi-detached,Hanover Project, Preston 2017
Selected Group Exhibitions
Paste Table Gallery, Putney Library, London 2018
Twice as Nice,PS Mirabel, Manchester, 2018
Tracing PAPER, PAPER Gallery, Manchester, 2018
KAOS Festival of Contemporary Collage,Layer House, Slovenia, 2018
Something Or Nothing, Abingdon Studios Blackpool, 2018
Outcome, PR1 Gallery, Preston 2018
Art& York, York Racecourse, 2017
New Mills Festival, The Studios, New Mills, 2017
On – Going, SLOE Gallery, Manchester, 2017
AIR Open 2017, AIR Gallery, Altringham, 2017
Looking In, Looking Through, Neo:gallery23, Bolton, 2017
Small World, Mirabel Studios, Manchester, 2017
Art + Text, 44AD, Bath, 2017
Abingdon Studios, Grundy Gallery, Blackpool, 2017
Remnants, Hanover Project, Preston, 2017
It Shouldn’t Really Work, Abingdon Studios, Blackpool, October 2016
Means, Abingdon Studios, Blackpool, September 2016
West Lancashire Open Exhibition 2016, Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk, 2016
The Bones of It, UCLan BA Fine Art Degree Show, Hanover Project, Preston, 2016
12-2-1, Blackburn Museum, Blackburn, 2016
Echoes, Lytham Hall, Lytham St Annes, 2015
West Lancashire Open Exhibition 2015, Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk, 2015
Breakfast Included, Pop up gallery, Blackpool, 2015
Best of Britannia, Old Post Office Building, Preston, 2015
Clarissa Corfe Selects, Hanover Project, Preston, 2015
Awards
Recipient of Associate Artist Award, Art B&B CIC, LeftCoast, ACE
Second Prize BATH Open Art Prize 2017
Artlab Contemporary Print Fellowship Award 2016
DS16 Award Winner Fine Art category 2016
Collections
Centre for Fine Print Research, University of West England, Bristol