ARTIST STATEMENT

Lured into a fetishistic play; materials beckon to be teased and manipulated, fluffed up and glossed. Swathes of organza lick cool steel, Egyptian cottons lay sodden, soft faux furs flirt with becoming sullied. Object becomes ornament. Painting becomes pattern. Fabric becomes framework.
Arrangement and precise placement activates the work, suggestive of a lustful touch.
Protruding. Straddling. Hanging. An aesthete's eye undresses the scene, noting moments of intimacy between materials. Brushed cotton fibres. Corpulent folds. Glossy blonde ponytails.
A seasoned, tasteful awareness of colour palette, pattern and texture are inherent in creating a dialogue which is then performed through the components relationships and proximities to each other.
The work endeavours to stimulate and titillate the observer. Proposed, Poised, Precise.


The work draws on ideas of commodity, object, and display. I am interested in a level of perfection, that alludes to an ideological lifestyle or product, the sculptures are ‘activated’ through movement, or simply a material state, a painted surface that will never dry, fabric being blown towards a glossed surface, never able to touch it. The idea of the paintings; the mark making, is that it becomes a cultivation; infecting, disrupting, spreading. Suggestive of a cancerous ‘reality’ or perhaps an STI or skin disease, something that rubs up against and disrupts this otherwise alluring display.

BIOGRAPHY

Education
    
Nottingham Trent University
    
2009 - 2012
    
BA (Hons) Fine Art
Exemplary 1st Class Honours awarded  

Exhibitions

2014
ATTIC, One Thoresby Street, Nottingham, TAKE A BITE OF PEACH, April
Hand In Glove, Bristol Art Weekender, Bristol, SURFACING, May 2-4th May


2013
Primary, Nottingham, SEVEN, December
Nottingham Castle, Annual Open, October - November
Exeter Phoenix, Open, September - November
ATTIC, One Thoresby Street, GIRL ON GIRL, April- May
ATTIC, One Thoresby Street, GIRL ON GIRL, live performance, 2nd May

2012
1 Lace Market Square, PRE-FAB, October -November
Nottingham Castle, Annual Open, October
Surface Gallery, SLIPPERY WHEN WET, February
Malt Cross, Room With A View, January

2011
Bonington Vitrine, Nottingham, Contemporary Sculpture: In Transit, November
Nottingham Trent Project Space, It feels like a Tuesday, April
Nottingham Trent University, Stand here and I’ll caress your face, March

2010
Nottingham Trent University, Toxic Waste, December 2010
Wellington Circus, Nottingham, Opening Hours, MediumRare
Old Market Galley, Rotherham, A Small Cinema
Surface Gallery, Nottingham, Surface Shorts exhibition
Malt Cross, Nottingham, BON:BON:BON:, When To Stop, Sideshow
Lee Rosy’s, Nottingham, Memory Box Cinema, The Colour of Sound, film screening of I soften and
Break up, by soaking in a liquid, a collaboration with Faye Green
Nottingham Castle and Castle Pub, Nottingham, MediumRare, New Build: Reconstruction at Hatch: it’s About Time
Embrace Arts Centre, Leicester, MediumRare, New Build at Hatch: It’s About Time
SAW (Sherwood Art Week), Collaboration with Bobby Sayers




Curation

Curator and Programmer, ATTIC, One Thoresby Street, Jan 2014 - Present

TAKE A BITE OF PEACH, Attic, One Thoresby Street, April 2014

PRE-FAB, 1 Lace Market Square, 1-6th Nov 2013

SLIPPERY WHEN WET, co-curated with Brendan Curtis, Surface Gallery, 27th Feb -3rd March 2013

It Feels Like A Tuesday, 15th April 2012, Nottingham Trent University

When To Stop, curated with BON:BON:BON, 1st Dec 2012, Malt Cross, Nottingham


Internships / Talks / Residencies

June 2014, Funded International Residency, Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn, Netherlands

July 2013, Summer Lodge Residency, Nottingham Trent University

May 2013, Unit 7 micro residency, Glasgow

March 2013, POWOWOW talks, One Thoresby Street

December 2013, PechaKucha talk series, The Collection, Lincoln