I am a multidisciplinary artist working with techniques such as painting, sculpture, stop frame animation, moving image and installation. Using these mediums, I explore ideas of the self, the absurdity and humour in the darkness in life and the duality in human nature. My work has a very deliberate hand crafted quality using traditional painting and sculpture techniques to reference classical artwork which is set against the uncanny imagery to create work which has a visceral quality and can be both grotesque and ethereal at the same time. I also use juxtapositions to contrast seemingly comforting imagery against disturbing elements to expose contradictions in life and in people.
My work is influenced by medieval art, as well as mythology and folklore. This familiar historical imagery is combined with nostalgic, kitsch and surreal elements to evoke an unsettling feeling and a nightmarish quality. My work aims to convey a strange joy or comfort from the nostalgic early 2000 elements and the deep associations people have to this imagery, combined with unsettling elements to create a contrast, evoking a sense of dread, unease and discomfort in the viewer. I often use human animal hybrids in my sculpture and painting to expose the darker sides of human nature in the modern world and capture the zeitgeist, presented as immersive installations with moving image and sound to add to the dissonance.
EDUCATION:
MA Fine Art: Central Saint Martins, University of The Arts London, 2023 - 2025
BA (Hons) Filmmaking: University of the West of England, 2019 - 2022
'Masking', The Good Rice, London, 2025
'Interval', Central Saint Martins, London, 2025
'Takeaway', The Good Rice, London, 2025
'Rustling Beneath Words', Five Years, London, 2024
‘TBF’, Hypha Studios, London, 2024
'Interim Show', Central Saint Martins, London, 2024
‘POTLUCK’, 44AD artspace, Bath, 2024