Art on a Postcard x St Wilfrid's Hospice: The Postcards II

About

My work is concerned with two key elements – Images and Objects.

I am fascinated by what an image is, how we respond to them, how we construct and make them – whether built up of paint, silver salt or pixels. I am also intrigued by how each era has been obsessed with images. I believe all images have abstract values and all abstract images are steeped in reality.

My work is based on these two fundamental elements. I collect and record the objects from our modern world – a scrap of cardboard, a plastic fragment – an object lost and found. These things, out of context, become strange and familiar. I find these objects on the street, on waste grounds, car parks - places that ‘Silt up with the litter of the living’. I then take the objects and try and interpret them as a two-dimensional image through a variety of approaches – orthographic projection, drawing, a photogram, a collagraph – any trick to convert the three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional image. I then reconstruct the image out of, none artistic material – found materials, wax, cardboard boxes, nails roof tiles – anything I come across. This echoes Rauschenberg’s belief that ’painting is more like the real world if it’s made out of the real world’.

Education

2002 PGCE, Northbrook College, Sussex 

1998 Bachelor of Fine Art, Southampton Institute

Select Exhibitions/Awards

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION 

2022 Solo Exhibition, &Gallery, Edinburgh 

2022 Solo Exhibition, Port, Eastbourne 

2020 Artist Focus, &Gallery, Edinburgh 

2019 ‘Quiet Obscurity’, &Gallery, Edinburgh 

2017 ‘The Banal & The Beautiful’ - Pie Factory Margate 

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS 

2022 AFF, New York 

2022 ‘The Shape of Things’, &Gallery, Edinburgh 

2022 ‘On Paper’, &Gallery, Edinburgh 

2021 AAF, Battersea, London 

2021 ‘Tiny Yet Mighty’, &Gallery, Edinburgh 

2021 ‘Annual Winter Exhibition’, &Gallery, Edinburgh 

2021 ‘The Land of Sol’, Sol Space, Nouic, France 

2021 ‘4th Anniversary Exhibition’, &Gallery, Edinburgh

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