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British Artist Ashford, United Kingdom FORTHCOMING The Orbit of the Egg till the 18 June - St Mary's, Sellindge Open Studio - Selected Dates between 2- 18 June - South East Open Studios Sea Us - 1 & 2 July - St Mary's Community Centre, Rye Our House in the Middle of the Street - August - Community Workshops - St Mary's, Sellindge |
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Using repetitive processes, my practice is one of enfoldment. Fragile, seemingly ephemeral, inconsequential and often using transparent plastic substances, my sculptures and drawings are made from every day, single use materials, achieved through a labour-intensive craft process of duplication or wrapping.
This process of enfoldment is a cathartic and haptic methodology, allowing me to spatially process my sense of grief and loss through the function of my body. To offer a connectivity, that contradicts the empiricism concept of time; where human nature must be continually retaught, to change the default setting of domination, discrimination and double standards. My wrapping processes are suggestive of acts of preservation yet the resulting sculptures, reflective of my mental analysis, lack substance, durability or essential transformation. Repeating early man’s stick people in my drawings to replicate the swarming migration and exploitation of our natural resources in the name of progress, ideology and humanity. Yet there is also a problematic challenge rooted in my sculptures due to the ubiquitous plastic material employed, resulting in questions that affects us all, as an intrinsic part of our modern industrial society. Plastics endure, with an outcome still not known, breaking into ever smaller particles to become absorbed into matter. It’s tenacious longevity, taking trillions of years to disintegrate, has the same charaterists of conventional and traditional sculpture which uses stone. The future is unclear, yet remaining embodied in layers of adhesive, will be the trapped traces of the human hand, hermetically sealed in the moment of construction, as a fragment in evolution. My prevailing concern with plastics has become increasing focused upon the throw away man-made plastics already in existence and with looking at the evidence of our prehistoric creative mind to find a way forward in resolving what has already been manufactured. Leading to the question, is there is a connectivity between our dependency on plastics with our natural intuition to exploit everything around us and will this inevitability facilitate our extinction. A member of Activism & Social Change / Facilitator at St Mary's, Sellindge / Co-ordinator for Ashford Visual Artists Exhibits in United Kingdom and Brazil. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2mafK0kcuOphGzJxVXBjZA |
VIA Arts Prize 2020 - runner up
MA Fine Art - University of the Creative Arts 2020
BA Fine Art – University of Kent 2016
BA Information & Editorial Design - Middlesex University 1984
SOLO
2023 The Orbit of the Egg - St Mary's, Sellindge
2022 Faceless - Instalation at St Mary's, Sellindge
A Sea Change - Instalation at St Mary's, Sellindge
Open Studio - Stone Hill, Sellindge
The Last 24hrs - Instalation at St Mary's, Sellindge
2021 . . . and now you don't - Little Swift, Margate
Enfold - Instalation at St Mary's, Sellindge
2018 Faceless - Strange Cargo, Folkestone to commemorate Armistice day
Open Studio - Stone Hill, Sellindge
2016 The Elephant in the Room – University Centre West Kent, Tonbridge
2015 Water as a Stone – University of Kent, Tonbridge
2014 Salted Caramel – University Centre West Kent, Tonbridge
COMMUNITY PROJECTS
2023 Our House in the Middle of the Street - St Mary's, Sellindge
Silver Queen 2 King III - School Project at St Mary's, Sellindge
2022 Community Art Fair - St Mary's, Sellindge
Grief Letter - Natalia Millman's ongoing community based project
Mellow Out Workshops - St Mary's, Sellindge
2021 Community Art Fair - St Mary's, Sellindge
Mellow Out Workshops - St Mary's, Sellindge
Message in a Bottle - Community Wellbeing - St Mary's, Sellindge
2020 Breathe out - Sessions for service users - Kent County Council - Ashford
Loafing Around - Catching Lives Homeless Shelter - Canterbury
2019 Harvest Tapestry - Stour Downs Parish - Smeeth
invisible made tangible - 13-16 yrs. olds - Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks
Spatial with Anna Baranowska - 13-16 yrs. olds - National Saturday Club, UCA, Canterbury
COLLABORATIONS
2023 Open Studio - with Molly Newton, Marie-Helene Hunter & Laura Hollis - SEOS, St Mary's, Sellindge
2021 VOID 2020 - invited by Jane Cordery - Horsebridge, Whitstable
2018 WAVELENGTHS with Jane Cordery - Arts Forum, Hastings - curator/artist
2017 Inverse Reflection with Sally Meakins - Arts Forum, Hastings
2016 repeatrepeatrepeat with Sophie Barnett - University of Kent, Tonbridge
2015 Uncharted Waters with Jane Cordery – Horsebridge Gallery, Whitstable
2014 Snakes & Ladders with Jane Cordery – Horsebridge Gallery, Whitstable
SELLECTED GROUP
2023 Sea Us - St Mary's Community Centre, Rye
30works30days - Instagram & Online hosted by ArtQuest
Reflections in Time - AVA at the Creative Centre, Rye
Narrativas - Echo's Studio, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2022 Reflexo - Echo's Studio, Sao Paulo, Brazil
We Are Here - Cambridge Artworks, Cambridge
Interlude – Espaço Ira Rebella, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Consumption - Issue 24 - Haus-a-Rest Art Zine @haus_a_rest
Time Project - tebbsgallery.com + book
30works30days - 12Ø Collective + Art Quest
Chronos - Echo's Studio, Sao Paulo, Brazil
The Open - Turner Contemporary, Margate
2021 I'm not a Number - Tin Tabernacle, Hythe
30works30days - 12Ø Collective + Art Quest
Fragment - Pragmata Collective - Online
The Virus that came to Tea - @r_is_n.projects + r-is-n.projects - Online
Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize – selected 3 March, Instagram
2020 VIA Arts Prize 2020 - Finalists' Online Exhibition
MA Degree Show - UCA - Online pop up
2019 "I make art about . . ." - Joseph Wales Gallery, Margate
Mrs Dalloway & Mrs Ramsey - Derek's Room, University of Kent, Canterbury
Tug of War - Alex Walton, Curating MA, UCA, Canterbury
Postcards - Devonshire Collective, Eastbourne
WAVELENGTHS 2 - Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks
Actants - Beaney Museum, Canterbury
Pint Sized - Brewery Tap, Folkestone
2018 Postcards - Devonshire Collective, Eastbourne
Members - Arts Forum, Hastings
2017 Afternoon Tea/Works on Paper - Chiara Williams Contemporary Art, Margate
This is Tomorrow - Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks
This is Tomorrow - University of Kent, Old Dockyard, Chatham
This is Tomorrow - University Centre West Kent, Tonbridge
Assemblage - Arts Forum, Hastings
Stains and Traces III - Arts Forum, Hastings
2016 Paper Works - Arts Forum, Hastings
Tonbridge Festival - University Centre West Kent, Tonbridge
In the Dock – University of Kent, Old Dockyard, Chatham
Textuality – University of Kent, Tonbridge
Beginnings: Works in Progress – University of Kent, Tonbridge
Turned Inside Out – University of Kent, Tonbridge
An Unlikely Quartet – University of Kent, Tonbridge
By Means of … - Arts Forum, Hastings
Reinterpret – University of Kent, Tonbridge
2015 Chalk at Towner – Towner, Eastbourne
In the Dock – University of Kent, Old Dockyard, Chatham
Lying beyond what’s obvious – University of Kent, Tonbridge
Fragmented Femininity – University of Kent, Tonbridge
Once upon a Time – University of Kent, Tonbridge
A Woman of No Importance – University of Kent, Tonbridge
By Means of … - Arts Forum, Hastings
2014 Cabinets of Curiosity – The Museum, Maidstone
One fine day in the middle of the Night – Singing Soul Gallery, Cranbrook
Stains + Traces II - Arts Forum, Hastings
Colour Block - Arts Forum, Hastings
2013 APT Creekside Open Selected by Paul Noble – Deptford, London
2011 APT Creekside Open Selected by Dexter Dalwood – Deptford, London
RESIDENCY
2021 Threshold - Brewery Tap Project Space, Folkestone - with Ali Lees & Melanie Jordan
2019 Cabin Fever - The Cabin, UCA, Canterbury - Solo
2016 Bank Side, Canary Wharf, London - Group
CURATING
2023 Co-ordinator of Ashford Visual Artists, since 2022
Faciliator at St Mary's, Sellindge, since 2019
2018 WAVELENGTHS - Arts Forum, Hastings
2016 Rio Return – University of Kent, Tonbridge
2015 And Where Were You? – Arts Forum, Hastings
2014 Back to back they faced each other - Arts Forum, Hastings
PUBLICATIONS
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