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

About

Informed by personal experiences and mixed Japanese-British heritage, my practice addresses notions of loss, longing and identity.

I draw inspiration from nature as well as Japanese and European still life paintings and religious iconography of the 16th-18th century. The works combine the traditional and the contemporary by adopting techniques of the Old Masters to create paintings from digitally rendered collages.

My paintings often feature dark, expansive spaces in which subjects are held unfathomably suspended, alluding to the idea of the void and the numinous. More recent sculptures in wax and clay, and installations using paper, rice and soil, are symbolic of legacy, desire and rebirth.

Materially the works are often part of a Western tradition, while conceptually they are rooted in Eastern philosophy and Japanese aesthetic principles. Almost as a metaphor for my mixed-race heritage, the works lie somewhere between; between abstraction and figuration, the real and the virtual, East and West, presence and absence.

Education

2019-20 
City & Guilds of London Art School, MA Fine Art
2005-08 
Camberwell College of Arts UAL, BA Hons Fine Art Painting
2004-05 
Wimbledon School of Arts UAL, Foundation Diploma in Art & Design

Select Exhibitions/Awards

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Without End, Maddox Gallery, London
2016  
Whole to Part, Chappell Contemporary, Whitstable 
2015  
Now and Again, The Royal Over-Seas League, London 
2014  
Only Now… Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong 
2012  
Ever Spring, Covent Garden, London

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Best of British, Maddox Gallery, Westbourne Grove, London
Modern Renaissance, Maddox Gallery, Maddox St, London
2021
Unpacking Gainsborough, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London
Class of 2020, City & Guilds of London Art School MA and BA Graduate Exhibition, The Bargehouse, London
Oils, Hybrid Gallery, Devon
Presence Volatile, Espace Enchante, Yvoire, France
2020
The Violet Hour, The Birds Are Singing in the Distant Woods
The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition

Gallery Representation

Maddox Gallery

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