ARTIST STATEMENT

My practice is rooted in observing the ways in which people and space interact. I am a multidisciplinary artist who embraces a non-hierarchical approach to mediums and source material, due to my interest in low and high art and value judgements. I am particularly drawn to live music culture, DIY aesthetics, and the concept of music gigs as modern day faith adjacent spaces of communing. In conjunction with these ideas I have worked with independent music venues such as the now closed Moles in Bath, as well as the re-opened Millenium building in Plymouth. Building up a visual archive of the energetic ephemera of gigs has informed my material choices, and two alternative methods I use to record gigs in non-photographic ways include collecting unclaimed lost property from venues, as well as working with bands to document their movements on the stage floor as they perform. These are all ways I am trying to understand the position in society where live music exists; as an environment to harbour self expression and raucousness and community. Using music memorabilia such as setlists, magazines and ‘bad’ camera phone photography are some other mediums I explore to examine the low art qualities of the self-made and the ‘fan’.

In addition to this, liminal environments also inform my photography and paintings as an appreciation for isolation and outsider-ness; the line between fear and peaceful solitude, and the decay of the man-made environments attract me to certain buildings and references for my paintings.

CV

EDUCATION
First Class (Hons) in Contemporary Fine Art, Bath School of Art (2022)

EXHBITIONS
RECORDED OFFERINGS Duo show with Ashanti Hare, KARST, February 2023
INTERLUDES Group show at Mall Galleries, July 2022
BATH SPA DEGREE SHOW, Group degree show at Bath School of Art, June 2022

RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
6 month artist residencies at KARST studios, Plymouth (2022)Shortlisted for Kenneth Armitage Sculpture Prize (2022)