Artist statement
Many opportunities exist within the urban landscape for artistic practices. My work explores the landscape, documenting social and historical significance's that are visible of being lost. Decaying architectural surface layers provide a trace and glimpse of our past history, fuelling my desire to visually record and document these transient states. The use of traditional printmaking processes supports my vision in the subjects that I depict. The use of textures and marks are important as it helps express what my eyes witness in the urban landscape. The etching process requires an enforced decay whereby the acid bites into the copper plate, resonating with the natural decay of the structures that I record. By documenting crumbling forms, I hope to make society more aware of their direct environment and the history that we are losing from urban expansion and redevelopments. I hope people will slow down and properly consider subjects that too many of us would normally walk straight past and ignore.
Exhibitions
London Original Print Fair 2021
Hepworth Wakefield Print Fair 2021
Great Print Exhibition 6, Rheged Centre, Cumbria, 2020
Woolwich Contemporary Print fair, 2020
168th Annual Open Exhibition, RWA,
Wales Contemporary, Waterfront Gallery, Summer at the Bankside, Bankside Gallery, London, 2020.
London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy of Arts London 2020
The Fading City, The Hive Birmingham
The Great Print Exhibition 5, Rheged Centre, Cumbria, 2019
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London 167th Annual Open Exhibition, RWA, Bristol Fragments, The Brewhouse Arts Center, Burton on Trent, 2019
Summer Exhibition 2019, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Exchange, Funen Graphic Studio, Denmark, 2019
RE Original's Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London 2019
London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2019
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, 2018
166th Annual Open Exhibition, RWA Bristol
Interruptions, 4o Print Fest, Athens
Flourish Award 2018, West Yorkshire Print Workshop
Edition 4, 44AD Artspace, Bath, 2018
Artbook Berlin, Kunstquartier Bethanien, 2017
Bristol to Odense, Christmas Steps Gallery, Bristol, 2017
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London,
165th Annual Open Exhibiton, RWA, Bristol National Open Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, 2017
Bristol meets Odense, Funen Graphic Studio, Denmark, 2017
BABE, Arnolfini, Bristol 2017
The Masters, Bankside Gallery, London 2016
164th Annual Open Exhibition, RWA, Bristol 2016
Edition 2, 44AD Artspace, Bath 2016
Awards and grants
Shortlisted for the RWA Works on Paper Prize 2020
Elizabeth Greenshield Award 2020
Arts Council Grant 2020
Elizabeth Greenshield Award 2019
Eton Fund Grant 2019
Printmaking Today 'State of the Art Prize' 2018
People's choice Award at the Flourish Awards
Queen Elizabeth Scholarship 2018Shortlisted for the Anthony Dawson Young Printmaker Award 2017
Danish International Arts Grant recipient Gane Trust Award recipient
Memberships
Royal Society of Painter Printmakers, based at Bankside Gallery www.banksidegallery.com
Residencies
Funen Graphic Studio, Denmark
Bristol Record Office - Artist in residence
Education
MA in Multidisciplinary Printmaking
BA Drawing for Fine Art practice
