STATEMENT
I am a visual artist with a specialisation in woodcut relief printmaking. My work is an exploration of deep time and space, as witnessed through the past, the wild and remote. I view my work as a collaboration with the past, and with the ancient materials I am working with. Inspiration for my work comes from myth, symbolism, and the geological perspective.
My practice is further informed by cross disciplinary field research in the areas of geology and paleobiology. ‘To look back as a catalyst for transformation of the present.’ I use recurring visual motifs of landscape and abstracted animal forms to create ‘modern relics’. These emblems offer the viewer a gateway to the ancient. I print predominantly by hand without the use of a printing press.
I am based in Bristol working out of the Bricks community studio space.
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TIME, REAL AND IMAGINARY
My triptych 'Time, real and imaginary' is printed with inks rehydrated from 200 million year old Jurrasic fossils. The melanin had been preserved within the Jurassic specimen, making it possible to reanimate it. The triptych was inspired by the memory of my late father and the recording of his mountaineering expeditions. Two distinct arcs of time emerged from the print series; a generational one and a geological one.
AWARDS, GRANTS, RESIDENCIES & MEMBERSHIPS
Rabley Gallery Print Prize, Royal West Academy 2022
Printmaking Today Editorial Prize, WCPF 2021
Arts Council England, DYCP Grant 2021
Peter Reddick Award, Spike Print Studio, Bristol 2021 - 2022
Portal, Coaching programme 2021
WECA, Creative Freelance Grant 2021
New Platform Art, Professional development programme 2021
Santander UK Freelancers Grant 2021
Bricks Associate Artist, Bristol 2020
Artist-in-Residence, City Lit University, London. April-June 2016
PUBLICATIONS
Printmaking Today Winter Issue 2021
The Journal of the California Society of Printmakers 2022
EXHIBITIONS
2024
Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral
Summer Print Show, Hancock Gallery, Newcastle
A is for Analogue, Frankenstein Gallery, Bristol
The Bath Open Art Prize, Bath
The Macfarlanes Art Prize, New Platform Art, London
2023
Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral
LinoPrint 3, Centrespace, Bristol
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London
The Royal West Academy open, Bristol
IOPE, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London
2022
Winter Sun, Llantarnam Grange, Wales
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London
The Royal West Academy open, Bristol
[SOLO] MODERN RELICS, Centrespace, Bristol
Spike Print, Open Studios, Bristol
UWE MA Print Alumni Show, Centrespace, Bristol
The Sketchbook, Llantarnam Grange, Wales
MAMDP Miniprint Exhibition, Arnolfini, Bristol
2021
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, RA, London
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London
Portal, Llantarnam Grange, Wales
Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral
2020
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London (online)
Bath Society of Artists, Bath (online)
New Light (Salon de Refuses), Scarborough Art Gallery
2019
Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London
Bath Society of Artists, Bath
Annual Open, RWA, Bristol
Art in Nature, World Land Trust, Create Centre Bristol
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London
The Masters, The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, Bankside Gallery London
2018
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London
The Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol
SWLA, Mall Galleries, London
Annual Open, RWA, Bristol
[SOLO] The Open Eye Theatre, Minneapolis, USA
2017
Awagami International, Tokushima, Japan
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London
The Natural Eye, Society of Wildlife Artists, Mall Galleries, London
Annual Open, Royal West Academy, Bristol
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, RA, London
Flaxon Ptooch, Dis-till, London
2016
Anima e Cuore, London
Safehouse 1, E-merge, London
Exhibition Highlights
