Statement
I make drawings, paintings, sculptures and videos about how we try to protect ourselves from that which we fear. I’m interested in the tragicomic fantasies we construct to fool ourselves into believing in the possibility of a life without pain.
Defence mechanisms and protective devices are repeating motifs in my practice, an expression of our ‘practical’ response to fear. A recent project focuses on the eye symbol, a spiritual ward against evil and evolutionary anti-predation adaptation. Ancient Greek drinking vessels, Nazars, eyespots, Hamsas, lion-diverting painting on cattle, the eye of Horus; the symbol crosses cultures and echoes humanity’s collective crisis.
If I were to contextualise my practice, it may be as a critique of accepted ‘bullshit’: ideology, power structures, superficial claims of importance or infallibility. My work uses humour and the absurd as a mechanism to explore the tragic search for solutions to unsolvable problems, an inadequate attempt at calming the existential angst.
Biography / CV
Shows
2022 - ‘Saturnine Hats and Other Titanic Failures’ New Normal Projects Presentation
2022 - ‘Permanent Temporary’ SUMweekly / London Design Festival Show at The Bottle Factory
2022 - ‘Oh My! What A Lovely Basket of Fruit!’ New Normal Projects Show at Netil House
2022 - Blue Shop Cottage ‘Works on Paper 4’ Show
2021 - City & Guilds of London Art School MA Final Show
2018 - Muse Gallery Residency Competition Summer Show
2016 - UAL LCC BA IVM End of Year Show
Education
2020 - 2021 City & Guilds of London Art School - MA Fine Art
2013 - 2016 UAL LCC - BA Illustration and Visual Media
2012 - 2013 UCA - Foundation Diploma Art and Design