Working predominately within video & film, my main concerns are firmly routed within the realms of collage and its power to disorientate the viewer through edit, cut or juxtoposition. Recent works have taken found footage as a visual starting point and, through it’s re-filming/re-investigation, the original visual finds itself redundant, making way to new narratives […]
I am interested in all species, ideas of metamorphosis, anthropomorphism, Evolution, Cryptozoology, belief systems, Horror, hierarchical thinking and great British eccentrics and experts. My work takes the form of installations, sculpture, video, sound pieces, Photography, taxidermy, drawing and text. This award will enable me to travel across Britain to meet with various experts, visit far […]
Goliath in white sneakers Inkjet print – 111 x 82.7 cm – 2011 These images document sensual and playful encounters between the camera and my body in a London cemetery, whilst undertaking intense fitness training. I enjoy the power of being on display and the little performances that take place between the moment I press […]
‘Slide’ Medium: Black & white photograph There is always something fascinating about objects. Over the recent year I have been looking at objects and exploring their ability to evoke our memory and convey a sense of nostalgia. I am interested in the way objects tell their own history and also the way people look at […]
The work responds to the space inhabited by tension between everyday experience and the creative impulse. Positioned in the transitory moments within the dream like state and waking self the work exists in the ‘spaces in between the real’. The practice is concerned with the polysemous nature of commonplace objects and occurrences and engages in […]
Education 2002 – 2003, Camberwell College of Art, Foundation Diploma 2003 – 2007, Slade School of Art, BA (Hons) Painting 2008 – Present, RA Schools, Postgraduate Diploma Exhibitions 2007, Slade School Final Degree Show 2007, Group Show, Gissings, Finsbury Square, London 2008, The New Dome Summer Show, Cable St Studios, London 2008, ‘A Calzone’, Group […]
‘Universes’ Video, floating objects, black ink and milk, Mini DV / no sound,1:42 min, 2010 Floating objects transformed into visual poetry. Floating geometric objects on liquids, caught in video. All works rely on simple arrangements of basic volumes and voids, manual produced surfaces and movements in a controlled choreography and algebraic permutation of pattern and […]
Black Powder Drawing Type 1A My work is formed by the individual and its inheritance of an evolutionary culture. Dealing with the idea of constructions of reality, of internal and external anthropic forces mutating its own laws. It tries to be like a cartographer of these elements of perception, realities and fantasy. The work consists […]
‘Amnesia and Oscillation’ 2009 Materials: paraffin wax object approx. 8cm x 10cm x 15cm, 12 prints 20cm x 25cm – Medium: Installation “The ultimate uncertainty of the past makes us all the more anxious to validate that things were as reputed. To gain assurance that yesterday was as substantial as today we saturate ourselves with […]
‘THE FUTILITY OF PARTICIPATION’ – steel, clay, varnish, teeth, wax, glass eyes, paint, 197cm x 33cm x 100cm, 2009 There is a moment, not a nightmare as such, but the uncanny moment at the cusp of waking where the real world takes on dream world qualities..” Working in a range of media, from sculpture to […]
