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Masters Fine Art Middlesex University 2012
Foundation Art & Design University of the Arts London 2010
Foundation Fine Art Kensington Chelsea College 2008
EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS 2024 - 2025
ResidencyStephen Swindells Aug-Sep 2025
'Logical Extracts and Other Fantasies' curator and participant in group exhibition with Alice Browne, Laura Wormell, Luke Burton, Studio 8 SPACE Sara Lane, June 2025
(project work, Australia, Jan - May 2025)
Rhythmic Dreaming at the Edge of a Storyline solo exhibition, ASC Gallery, November 2024
Spectrum White Noise Projects/Artist Support Pledge Collab, One Paved Court Gallery, September 2024
The Waves Beside Them Danced ARC Gallery, June 2024
It Rose and It Fell Terrace Gallery, May 2024
Emerging Artists Dodomu Gallery New York, May 2024
Outside/In SET Ealing, February – March 2024
STABLE Bobinska Brownlee, December 2023 – January 2024
STATEMENT
I am absorbed by the fluidity of how things originate, stories evolve, borders dissolve and images are created. This is primarily driven by my inexplicable incomprehension as to how it is I am here; with a perpetually shifting sense of what constitutes "here" and resulting from my complex familial history in Australia.
My research centres around personal narratives, mythologies and reconsidered histories, within themes of survival, memory and evolution. The resulting compositions play out in opposing dualities of structure and intuition. The structural element is derived by systematic logic, appearing in zigzags, folds, rhythms and segmentation. While the biomorphic element carries oblique references, from Japanese anime to biology and landscape.
My abstract paintings seek to unpack and expose the layered process of image-making by revealing the parts that make up a whole. Similar to imaging software, this splays the visual into a material making process over time; where windows of raw canvas point to ground or source material, while geometric overlays become perceptual portholes, barriers, holding patterns. It’s a way of exploring how paintings begin, develop and finally appear in the world. I use a range of water based paints – gouache, liquid acrylics, watercolour, and raw pigments – in an effort to keep image making as fluid as possible. The final work evokes a sense of perpetual flux and the impossibility of precise clarification.