I am a conceptual artist dealing with themes of human isolation and communication in the context of the contemporary age. 

My work is rooted in a personal and wider observed struggle to communicate. My visual language often subverts Britain’s passion for nostalgia with a sardonic tone to explore notions of time, memory and permanence through sculpture, print, video and installation. Within this, I’m fascinated in seeking the universal in both the particular and the peculiar, and more specifically the banal, I reimagine the detritus of modern day life as relics and ruin. My work offers an alternative perspective on our fast changing times and seek to archive the truth behind the theatrical veil of modern human existence.

In 2019, I launched ‘+44 leave a Message for Europe’ - a public, part digital and part physical project which centred around live web cam stream of a sculpture of a telephone box installed on Dungeness beach, Kent. The public were invited to call the sculpture online, no matter what their opinion, and leave their voice messages for Europe during the 28 day lead up to Britain's original departure date from the EU, 29th March 2019. The project was extended into April and the full archive of voice messages is available to listen to at www.leaveamessage4europe.com Collating both the footage and the voice archive, I developed the project into a time-based media work titled 28 Days in March….which is available to watch in the WORK section of this website.

I graduated from Chelsea College of Art in 2013. My recent solo exhibitions include Times are hard for dreamers, Tuscany wharf, London, UK (2023), Still Life, Cob Gallery, London, UK (2021); +44 Leave a Message for Europe, Dungeness Beach, Kent, UK (2019); VACANCY, Cob Gallery, London, UK (2019); Loose Change, Cob Gallery, London (2017); Take Away, Cob Gallery, London, UK (2016). Group exhibitions include: ReCOVER, UnCOVER, Masa Galeria, Mexico City, Mexico (2020); An Exquisite Mess, curated by India Dickinson, London (2018); FOURTH, London, UK (2016); Quality Produce, London, UK (2016). Presentations include 28 Days in March... which debuted at Frieze London 2019.

 

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