Drawing first and foremost is a way to narrate myself into ‘being’. It enables me to construct a sense of identity and navigate the intersections where this is distorted by anxiety disorder.
Within my practice, there is a mimetic and fluid interplay between text and image which is not illustrative, but rather a language overall which uses a convulsing, fluid, stark and often vigorous use of drawn line.
It plays a game, narrating anxiety, identity, anecdote and self-criticism through quasi-human, quasi-fictional parasitic creatures (or parts of them), poetry and spoken dialogue, some of which is linguistically recognisable; some taking the form of guttural sounds or what we consider ‘noise’. The narrator is unreliable to a linear, structured order of language, being and recognisability; for such order facilitates hierarchy and a binary appointing of otherness.
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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