Artist statement
My work is a response to the artifice & idiocy, glory and magnificence of modern living, that takes heed of tradition, art history and critical theory. If occasionally belligerent and contrary, it is not intended to be nostalgic.
I suggest that reappraising overlooked moments of the past can suggest ways of looking at things afresh today, and that the experience of how objects hold space is something still to be valued.
We now live in an age where information and ideas are acquired ever more increasingly by synthesis rather than dictum. I believe it is important within this mix to make visible things that might otherwise be missed.
Curation
2011
Change The World Or Go Home, Down Stairs, Madley.
Ghazaleh Abassalian, Steven Allbutt, Bigtoe Group, Craig Barnes, Kitty Clark, Tom Crawford, Jeremy Deller, Sean Dower, Jeremy Hutchison, Alexander Krone, Jimmy Merris, Mark McGowan, Dominic Samsworth, Mark Titchner, Charlotte Young, Hennessy Youngman.
“Art is made by those who are not content with the configuration of human relations to objects and phenomena as presented. Art presents an alternative to the configuration as it stands.” Lawrence Weiner, 1991.
Change The World Or Go Home is an exhibition that brings together artists that share an awareness of the wider world into which their work is placed. Work with clear targets and aims will be set alongside work that makes a noise whilst seemingly questioning what the role of an artist is in today’s contemporary society.
Exhibitions
2012
Home #1, Home, Hastings, 18/02/12 – 18/03/12.
2011
Next to Nothing, +44 141 Gallery, Glasgow.
Next to Nothing, The Light, Leeds.
Change The World Or Go Home, Down Stairs, Madley.
Heartlands, Down Stairs, Madley.
As you wish (solo show), Outpost, Slotervaart, Amsterdam.
£171, Project Space 11, Plymouth.
How could everybody be so wrong, AndOr Gallery, London.
Versailles, Redchurch Street Gallery, London.
2010
La Braderie D’Art, La Condition D’ Public, Lille.
Legacy I, L.I.U., Foremans Sculpture Yard, London.
Village Green Sculpture Park, Art is just a word, Stanton St John.
How to look?, Project Space 11, Plymouth.
Land without a map, Affordable Art Fair (curated by Jotta), London.
2009
FutureMap 09, 20 Hoxton Square Projects, London
Space Within, Jeff Coombs Projects, Manchester
BA Fine Art Degree Show, Central Saint Martins, London
2006
Xhibit06, The Arts Gallery, London
Sanctuary, St Patricks Church, London.
Collections
Works in the collection of University of the Arts London & various private collections.
Publications
A-N, Change the world or go home review, November 2011
Dazed, Change the world or go home interview, September 2011
The Independent, Change the world or go home preview, September 2011
Unfold, As You Wish preview, May 2011
Glass magazine, Artists to watch feature, Summer 2010
Shaping Sculpture, publication of the University of the Arts, April 2010
Cent magazine, Spring/Summer 2010
The Catlin Guide 2010, ed. Justin Hammond, January 2010.
The Times, Times 2: Buy Me, November 2009
Sunday Times, Culture: Frieze, Zoo and affordable art, October 2009
Jotta, Ones to Watch feature, June 2009
Future Trends 09/10 from CSM. Ed Tallon, K. Batsford, London 2008
26 Malts: Some joy ride. Ed Delves, S & others. Cyan, London 2005
Education
2006 – 2009 : Central Saint Martins, Fine Art BA (1st class hons)
2008 – Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (exchange program)
2004 – 2006 : Chelsea College of Art, Foundation (Pass with distinction)