Artist Statement
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My practice uses different modes of making to associate with the idea of retrofuturism; to look forward whilst looking backwards. The liminal space between these temporal zones allows my work to meander until it finds its rhythm and place in the world - meaning is accumulated during and after the making, but rarely before. Artefacts from across cultures (along with their contemporary interpretations in popular culture) interrelate to influence the shaping of the work. This imagined reality responds to our relationship with technology and its power to organise society in its image.
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I use the hybridity of assemblage, and its quality for making associations to explore the questions that arise from obsolescence - a necessary byproduct of technological advancement. My sculptures combine manufactured everyday forms with modelled or constructed objects. By playing chance against order, the old with the new, or combining the synthetic with the organic, I consider a future whose unfulfilled promise lingers over the present.
Ideas formulate through the elemental nature of the material, of which Clay is a go to because its geological nature connects the micro to the macro. Form emerges by working spontaneously and in tune with the immediacy of the present. As a counterpoint to the haptic quality of working crudely with clay, I use the same intuitive led process, but with the precision of CAD to build image-orientated forms grounded in the geometry of vector modelling.
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Selected Group Shows​​​
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01/2025 The London Group Annual, The Royal Watercolour Society, London
09/2024 Stillness in Movement with The London Group, Bermondsey Project Space, London
09/2024 Small Wonders with The London Group, Croydon Artspace, London
08/2024 Reality Check, Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Show curated by David McAlmont, London
07/2024 Landscape with The London Group, St Johns Waterloo, London
06/2024 Chelsea Arts Society Annual Open, Chelsea Town Hall
12/2023 Linden Hall Studio Winter Open, Deal, Kent
11/2023 Ing Discerning Eye selected by Chris Levine, Mall Galleries, London
11/2023 The London Group Open, Copeland Park Gallery, London
09/2023 170 Annual RWA Open Exhibition, Bristol selected by Charmaine Watkiss and Meryl Ainslie
08/2023 The London Group at Linden Hall Studio Gallery, Deal, Kent
06/2023 Tethered Publics, Online
04/2023 The London Group at Scarborough, The Old Parcels Office
12/2022 Southwark Park Galleries Open, London
11/2022 The London Group at Bankside, London
08/2022 Catch your Breath with The London Group, St Johns Waterloo, London
12/2021 Southwark Park Galleries Open, London
11/2021 Ing Discerning Eye selected by Russell Tovey, Mall Galleries
​12/2020 On Being selected by Kim Power, Sculptors Alliance, New York [Online]
12/2020 Southwark Park Galleries Open, London [Online]
12/2020 Artworks Open selected by Alex Schady and Michelle Williams Gamemaker, London
11/2020 ArtCan Open, Cello Factory selected by Gita Joshi [Cancelled]
11/2019 The London Group Open, Cello Factory
03/2019 RWA Sculpture Open Exhibition, Royal West Academy, Bristol
12/2018 Sculpture at Hampstead School of Art, London
07/2017 Plymouth Contemporary, Karst Gallery, Plymouth
01/2017 Staying with the Troubles, The Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts
04/2016 Walker & Bromwich's Circus Between Worlds, Glasgow International
02/2016 Re:view, Pollok House, Glasgow
07/2015 Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Prize selected by Christine Borland, Jenni Lomax &
Laurence Sillars Baltic 39, Newcastle
Awards​ & Grants
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2025 The Eaton Fund Grant
2023 Elected into The Royal Society of Sculptors
2022 Elected into The London Group
2019 RWA Sculpture Open Exhibition Prize Winner
2016 Hope Scott Trust Grant
2015 Kenneth Armitage Sculpture Award
2015 Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Prize Discretionary Prize
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Residencies
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2020 Hampstead School of Art x Mount Anvil Temple Studio Residency
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Education
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2021 PGCE Art & Design, University College London
2016 Master of Letters in Sculpture, The Glasgow School of Art
2015 BA Fine Art, Leeds Arts University
2012 Access to HE, Leeds Arts University
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Professional Experience
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2025 Art & Design Teacher, Colfe's School, Lee
2022 - 2024 Art & Design Teacher, St Ursula's Convent School, Greenwich
2017 - 2021 Foundation Course Leader Hampstead School of Art
2017 Visiting Lecturer BA Fine Art, Leeds Arts University
2017 Studio Assistant, Oliver Beer Studio
2016 Visiting Lecturer HNC Fine Art, Glasgow Clyde College