I am a visual artist and practice-based PhD student.
Harnessing anautoethnographic approach, my research explores the use of drawing andexperimental writing to articulate my personal experience of generalizedanxiety disorder, questioning its impact upon perceptions of the self and howsubjective lived experience is envisaged in the mind. Crucially, it is a meansto narrate myself into ‘being’.
I am concerned with how this intersects with gender and subject-object power relations in artistic discourse. As the historic spectre of ‘hysteria’ continues to pollute societal conceptions of womxn’s mental health, my artistic practice contemplates what a post-voyeuristic conception of feminized anxiety could resemble.
This has previously taken the form of fictitious cartoon semi-human ‘characters’; wordplay, anecdote and a writhing, convulsing use of line. The result is unfixed and impossible to pinpoint – at once playful, fragmented, and phantasmic.
Education
2019-2025
PhD
Manchester School of Art
2017-19
MA Print
Royal College of Art
2013-16
BFA Fine Art
University of Oxford
Exhibitions
Works on Paper, The Brick Lane Gallery, 06-2021 - 07-2021
On Point, Surface Gallery (Online Show) 08-2020
Clifford Chance's Postgraduate Printmaking in London, London, 11-2019 - 12 - 2019
neo:artprize, Bolton Museum Gallery, Bolton, 09-2019 - 10-2019
Uncertainty and the Unknown, City Arts, Nottingham, 06-2019 - 10-2019
Royal College of Art Degree Show 2019, Royal College of Art, London, 06-2019
We Can Only Have Fun on Certain Days, Stour Space, London, 04-2019
What a Relief, CGP London, 03-2019
The Masters: Screen and Stone, Bankside Gallery, London, 11-2018
Lviv: View From Inside, View From Outside, Stanislaw Lem Cultural Center, Lviv, 19 & 20 07-2018
Marching Through the Fields, Jeannie Avent Gallery, London, 08-2018
WIP Show, Royal College of Art, London, 01-2018
Open Contemporary Young Artist Award, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 06-2017 - 08-2017
FRESH, Rural Arts, Thirsk, Yorkshire, 04-2017
#7 New Colour, Middleport Pottery,Stoke-on-Trent, 04-2017
The Red Mansion Art Prize, Kendrew Barn, St John's College, Oxford, 03-2017
Echoes of Queen Street, The Wedgwood Institute, Stoke-on-Trent, 12-2016
Dust, Spode Factory, Stoke-on-Trent, 11-2016
Open Studio, Red Gate Residency, Beijing, 09-2016
Fragments, BottleCraft, Stoke-on-Trent, 08-2016
Ruskin Degree Show, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford, 06-2016
Awards/Bursaries
The Philip Bates Trust Award, 2018
Goodenough Scholarship, Goodenough College, 2018
Young Talent Scholarship, International SummerAcademy of Fine Arts and Media, Venice, 2018
Delphian Open Call Award, Delphian Gallery(Shortlisted) 2018
First GrantRecipient, The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, 2017
The Open ContemporaryYoung Artist Award, Biscuit Factory (Shortlisted) 2017
The Red Mansion Art Prize,The Red Mansion Foundation, 2016
Residencies
International Summer Academy of Fine Arts and Media, Venice, 07-18
Dumfries House Residency, Ayrshire, Scotland,06-2017
Red Gate Residency, Beijing, China, 09-2016
The artist wishes to thank both the Philip Bates Trust and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation for their support.
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