INFO
My work is like “Les Dawson” playing his piano out of key to a piece by “Sergei Rachmaninoff” at The Royal Albert Hall some will get it … other’s won’t!
STATEMENT
I work on any surface I can get my hands on; walls, canvases of all sizes, on stretchers, floors and stapled directly onto walls. I create large installations pieces to captivate my audiences with my narratives. My narratives are spewed images of popular culture,Queer history,figurative/portraits, parody and contemporary culture such as Hollywood, British Humour, Art and Celebrity, aligned with historical and autobiographical events including my previous work environments. Drawing from my personal fears of violence/mortality this informs my practice and my selection of iconic imagery leaning towards a more sinister element.
My ideas come as a result of Appropriating from a broad range of media sources; Internet, YouTube, films and paper media publications, including expression from my own position and experience of British and American events. I want viewers to be lost in recognition and familiarity of the texts and images when they look at my paintings – although frenetic in their appearance requiring a slower realisation of placement of the images and text. I am continually looking for new imagery from the vast multi media we have at our disposal and get really excited when prompted by images which further informs my next piece of work. I create varied sized immediately recognizable and subjugated imagery emotionally conveying to the intellectual investigation of painting. I use thick black marker pens, and mix mediums such as monster graffiti spray paints, household paints, glosses, acrylics, charcoals, vanishes, tapes, screen printing inks, retro clothes patterns jigsaws pieces and resin.
I attack conventional ideas about individuality and innate creativity by altering lines of perceptions.
EXHIBITIONS
The Holy Art London Virtual Exhibition 2022
Ashhurst Prize London 2020
Group Exhibition Konstepidemin, Gothenburg Sweden 2019 Feb-March
Group Exhibition Aarhus, Denmark "Meat" 2018
Artrooms 2018
The World Interiors Magazine Art Feature 2018
London Open Digital 2018
Ashhurst Art Prize 2018
Arnolfini Gallery Bristol: The Other Art Fair 2017
Ashhurst Art Prize-Rich Mix 2017
Luxembourg Art Prize 2016
The Ashhurst Art Prize 2016
The Threadneedle Prize 2016 ( Pre-Selection)
The Waterhall Gallery, Birmingham Museum Nov 2015- Jan 2016
ArtGemini Prize 2015 Finalist Menier Gallery London Sept 2015
Halle14: Finalist May 2015 Leipzig Germany
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
Painting: Saturday Night's Alright 4 Fightin! October 2014 to March 2015
INTERVIEWS & ARTICLES
New Talent Metro: 5th March 2014
The Art Of The Matter Birmingham Mail: 28th February 2014
New Artists Shine Light On Dark Side Of Life Birmingham Post: 27th February 2014
The Cultural Review with Tom Mallow Cross Counties Radio 1. December 2013
STROKES OF GENIUS Case study - Sharon Farrelly
Barber Institue, Birmingham 2015
National Trust Commission
Croome Park Bird Sculptures
Croome Park, Worcester. July 2014
What a Dump!
Warwickshire College Residency. March - April 2014
New Art West Midlands
Wolverhampton Art Gallery. February - May 2014
Cork Street Open Exhibition 28 Cork Street, London. August 2013
Baltic Gallery: Group Exhibition Gateshead. May 2015
State Of Paint Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham. April 2013
Penumbra:unresolved transition. The Works Gallery. Birmingham. February 2012
TALKS
Herbert Gallery - Coventry February 2015
Uxbridge College- Artist Talk November 2017