Artists Statement
The role of personal perspective in how we understand the world is central to my practice. This is a synthesis of my observations and psychosocial response to them. I am interested in the degree to which we are sensitive to our surroundings.
With my abstract work I aim to provoke some thought about our relationship with the inanimate, and to question what is deemed valuable, attractive or significant by society and individual agents. Through tempered abstraction, I attempt both to displace human experience from the mundane and familiar; and at the same time effect engagement with an unexpected richness of textures and colours of often-unconsidered aspects of our physical world.
As I increasingly seek to engage more directly with the observer through human experience my work has been concerned with the emotional and social environment. Taking daily events or unremarkable scenes, often featuring the human figure I form commentaries on contemporary life that strongly evoke the memories of individuals’ childhood experiences, or observed private dramas unfolding. These intimate small works are produced on small copper and wood panel.
Education
2010 Byam Shaw School of Art (Central Saint Martins) - Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art
1996 Oldham College - BTEC Foundation in Art and Design
Exhibitions
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (2008)
The Bankside Gallery (2010)
The London Group Open (2011)
