Bio

Who I am

I am a Liverpool based artist & arts professional currently studying an MA in Arts Management, Policy & Practice at the University of Manchester.

Reading at the moment:  The backlog of the last few issues of Frieze and A-N magazine that I haven’t managed to get chance to read. Yet.

What I do

I currently draw inspiration from our relationships with perceived ‘banal’ objects and forms that we encounter in every day life.

Our relationships to these objects are often dictated by a systematic hierarchical order that has been employed to achieve a specific goal a simple example being blocking access to part of a sidewalk being repaired or a machine dispensing tickets within a transportation system.

These objects, signs and forms weave almost silently amongst global networks, cultures and ways of life holding a unique yet static permanence defined by our relationship, interaction and compliance with these objects and systems and ultimately, the bodies that control them.

My work at present draws upon these aspects alongside a strong interest in the spatial properties of objects to create sculptural artworks whose creation could be read as an attempt to critique these systems and preconceptions.

Further Information

These forms/objects thrive on the tensions of the relationships between the constructed forms and found materials present in my work. I aim to manipulate our knowledge and understanding of the systematic value and perception of specific objects.

Chance is often an arbiter of my work and decisions are often dictated by the conditions of production. The importance of materials that I use/find/gather often have a critical significance to the reading of the work alongside evident geometrical and spatial concerns.

The creation of these new forms is paradoxical in that whilst the objects are often heavy and cumbersome, they are balanced or propped at odds with their state of existence – the threat of failure/collapse every present.

Selected Exhibitions

The Seaside Land – The Royal Standard, 60th Anniversary of Festival of Britain, Southbank, London
Space Exchange, Aid & Abet, Cambridge

Directorships

Director of Arena Studios & Gallery; February 2008-May 2010

Awards

Susan Cotton Travel Scholarship 2007

Curation/Exhibitions organised

Exposed Surfaces, Out of the Bluecoat, July 2007

Coller Elective, Arena Gallery, June 2009

Trip Through My Window, Arena Gallery, July 2009

A Degree of Uncertainty, Arena Gallery, August 2009

a solitary cosmopolitan, Arena Gallery, February 2010

Collusion, Arena Gallery, March 2010

Proof, Arena Gallery, April 2010

Writing

Roves & Roams, 2011

Ongoing A-N Blog:  http://www.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/1516347

Blankpages guest visual editor, issue 14, November 2009

Blankpages, Issue 14, November 2009

Liverpool Art Journal, Issue Two, published by Tracey Eastham, 2009

A Degree of Uncertainty exhibition text, August 2009

Culture Campus Magazine editor and writer, 2008

The Bluecoat blog, 2008

Features

Blankpages Issue 13 featured artist, July 2009

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