Artist Statement
My practice mines the past and a future whose unfulfilled promise lingers over a present exhausted by a totalitarian ideal modelled on technological progress at the expense of human relations. Often, the work takes traditional subjects - the figure and animal, and transforms them in a way fitting for a time when technology organises society in its image. The liminal space between the past, present, and future 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. This spontaneity is informed by the sculptural and visual form of artefacts and religious icons from across cultures, along with their symbolic interpretations in popular culture. A process which highlights the abundance of cultural exchange throughout history.
I work with and against the eternal presence of childhood, and the archetypes of power mediated during our formative years. The search for the idea and feeling of authentic experience associated with childhood is ever present, alongside the knowledge that universal patterns of power and their symbolism have already infiltrated and mediated this authentic ideal.
Selected Group Shows
09/2026 Personal Relations curated by Hartslane, Cello Factory, London
08/2026 Now I make a leaf of Voices with The London Group, St Johns Waterloo, London
05/2026 The London Group Annual, The Handbag Factory, London
05/2026 Personal Relations curated by Hartslane, Centro Cultura Medusa, Padova
12/2025 Personal Relations curated by Hartslane, What Are Can Do, Amsterdam
12/2025 Southwark Park Galleries Open, London
11/2025 The London Group Open, Copeland Park Gallery, London
08/2025 The London Group at Linden Hall Studio, Kent
09/2025 Everything Then is Now, The Old Waiting Room, Peckham
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
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
Residencies
2020 Hampstead School of Art x Mount Anvil Temple Studio Residency
Education
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
Professional Experience
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