Opening night of Standpoint Gallery exhibition, Sculpture of Site, Object of Play (February, 2020)

Opening night of Standpoint Gallery exhibition, Sculpture of Site, Object of Play (February, 2020)

My research is interested in the idea of adaptation.

I draw parallels between contingent making processes of artworks and methods in society of human and natural adaptation, i.e., how humans build temporary structures, shelters, and rafts which are used both for adventure and for survival.

I layer and collage together to investigate spatial environments; the rural, urban and digital. I splice together moving image and create collages that are layers upon layers of print, and sculptures from unusual combinations of materials. I intuitively make using materials that have been discarded such as packaging or that are part of other processes in an artist’s studio.

I am interested in the way that nature creeps back into every part of urban space and how natural phenomena such as water and light affect our experience of the world around us. I consider the duality that exists between water as a beautiful material that is difficult to control and water as something that is increasingly threatening. 

My current research juxtaposes distinct landscapes facing uncertainty due to climate change and extreme scenarios of too much or too little water. Field research has taken place in Latin America, including the rainforest in Panama and the Atacama Desert in Chile. The production of artworks become a means of visualizing hopeful future possibilities for understanding landscapes despite the challenges of climate change.

CV

EDUCATION

2021- current PhD candidate, University of Gloucestershire 

2017-2019:    MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art.

2009: Exchange. Kyoto Seika University, Japan

2006-2010:    BA Honours Sculpture, Glasgow School of Art

CURRENT WORK 

2021: University of Gloucestershire. Lecturer in Fine Art  
2012: Cambridge University Museums. Artist educator 

PREVIOUS WORK

2019-2021: University of Gloucestershire. Associate Lecturer in Fine Art

2018- 2019: Royal College of Art.  Workshop supervisor.  

2011- 2015: Futurecity. Assistant Project Manager.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017:  Ugly Duck, London. Constructed Reality

2013: Tower 42, London. Volume

2011: Makers Gallery, Cambridge. Transition

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS  

2024: RAFT. Royal Overseas League, London. (Curator)

Material Thinking. The Lightbox, Woking.

On the Edge 2.0. Ovada, Oxford.

Casting Shadows. AceArts, Somerton with Royal Society of Sculptors.

Fragments of a Lost Future. White Conduit Projects, London.

Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition at York Art Gallery

2023: La Yareta Culture Centre, Chile. La Wayaka Current

Wanderland. Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens with RSS.

On The Edge. Royal Society of Sculptors, London.

2022: Changing Atmospheres. Hestercombe Gallery, Somerset.

Unlit Path, Hardwick Gallery.

2021: 50/50. University of East London Way Out East Gallery. (Co-curator)

Plus One. Hoxton, London.

Landscape Portrait: Now and Then. Hestercombe Gallery., Somerset.

2020: Discerning Eye. Judges Selection by Jo Baring 

Ori, Berlin. Utopie

Summer Exhibition. Royal Society of Sculptors.

Mark Tanner Sculpture Award Residency Presentation Standpoint Gallery, London.

2019: Purchase Prize Finalist Exhibition. Ingram Collection at the Cello Factory, London. 

Graduate Show. Royal College of Art.

Teaser Royal College of Art Courtyard Gallery. The Slade and RCA.

Everything you ever wanted to know about sculpture. South London Gallery.

2018: Graduate Exhibition. Anise Gallery.

Summer Exhibition. Palazzo de Zenobio, Venice.

2017: Bursary Award Exhibition Royal Society of Sculptors, London.

Lumen School of Light.Ugly Duck, London.

2016: Beneath the Surface. The Undercroft Norwich.

Studiobook. Mark Devereux Projects at Artwork Atelier, Manchester.

2015: Eureka. Mile End Art Pavilion.

2014: Demolition. Aid and Abet, Cambridge.

Pioneer. Golden Thread Gallery, Connecticut.

2013: Group Show Anise Gallery, London.

2012: Iwakura The Briggait Glasgow.

2011: Blurred Boundaries The Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh. 

2010: Glasgow Fleeto. Shoreditch Town Hall, London.

Glasgow School of Art, Degree Show. The Mackintosh Building, Glasgow

2009: Kyoto Seika University Group Show. Muromachi Art Court, Kyoto.

PERMANENT PUBLIC ART  

2011: St George’s Cross, Glasgow. Underpass

REPRESENTATION

2022: Sedition Curated Artist

2020:  Artiq

SELECTED TEMPORARY PUBLIC ART + COMMISSIONS 

2023: Fora, Southwark, London commission with Subject Matter Art

Hestercombe Gallery. Commission for outdoor public sculpture

2021: Bristol Circus City Festival. Set Design

2017: Veil/Unveil. The National Trust, Eastbury Manor House. Glow commissioned by Creative Barking and Dagenham

Orrery. Jesus College, Cambridge.

2015: Raindance Film Festival. Awards commission

Fitzwilliam Museum, King’s College, Peterhouse, Cambridge. e-luminate Festival

2014: Perception. Art:Language: Location at Cambridge University Law Faculty

2013: Wysing Arts Festival in Collaboration with Hollow Mountain

2012: Void. Glasgow International

Point of View. Futurecity Visualise Commission at Cambridge Institute of Astronomy

2011: Retreat. BBC Scotland Red Shed Project.

Light Corridor. Saatchi Art Trail at Big Chill Festival, Hereford

AWARDS + BURSARIES 

2024: Aesthetica Art Prize Longlist

2023: CCRI Foundation funding for residency in Chile

2022: Eaton Fund

2020: Arts Council England funding

2018: Scholarship: International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Venice

2018: Villiers David Travel Grant to visit Iceland

2016: Bursary Award. Royal Society of Sculptors, London

SELECTED RESIDENCIES + WORKSHOPS  

2024: Croft Lab, The Launderette, Bristol.

2023: La Wayaka Current, Residency in Chile

2022: La Wayaka Current, Residency in Panama.

2021: Zabludowicz Masterclass

2020: Ingram Collection Purchase Prize Residency at Hestercombe Gallery.

Mark Tanner Sculpture Award Residency

2018: Tomas Saraceno. Aerocene Workshop with RCA. Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Kurt Switters Merz Barn Summer. Residency, The Lake District

2016: Studiobook, Mark Devereux Projects, Manchester

2014: Sustainability Residency, Cambridge

2011: AA2A, Cambridge School of Art

2009: Urban Spaces Residency, Ars Hame, Riihimaki, Finland

SELECTED PAST VISITING LECTURING + TEACHING 

2024: Growing Places with Walking the Land. Artist educator

2021: University of East London. Visiting Lecturer.

West Herts College. Visiting lecturer and tutor. 

2020: University of Bedfordshire. Delivered lecture.

City Lit. Visiting lecturer for Conscious Isolation.

Royal College of Art. Delivered Professional practice lecture

2019: Hello Wood, Hungary. Workshop Leader

Falmouth University. Guest speaker about sustainability 

University for the Creative Arts. Visiting lecturer. Delivered one day session. Artist talk and critical feedback session

University of the Arts London Camberwell. Visiting tutor. Delivered one day workshop on public art

2018: University for the Creative Arts. Visiting lecturer and tutor. Delivered one day session. Artist talk and tutorials

University of Gloucestershire.  Visiting lecturer. Two day sessions. Artist talk/ tutorials and public art workshop 

University of Brighton. Art lecturer and visiting tutor. Delivered one day session. Artist talk and tutorials

University of Westminster. Visiting tutor. Delivered one day session. Artist talk on public art and tutorials

2011-2016: University of Cambridge. Guest lecturer. History of art/architecture and Art Markets Course, Judge Business School

2015: Royal British Society of Sculptors.  Workshop leader. Running a series of workshops

2013: Goldsmiths University of London. Guest speaker for Creative Mapping. Delivered one lecture 

2012: Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University. Visiting Lecturer. Delivered artist talk

Other  
2020: Conscious Isolation: Lectures, critical feedback sessions and open calls with Samuel Zealey.

Working in collaboration with University of East London and The Ingram Collection.