'the knowing artistic reconsideration of Romantic ideals' (Jo Lee, 2009)

The quest is essential, the doorway is key and the experience is waiting. The artist as a pilgrim, as an explorer. The romantic hero cast against his chosen landscape begins to perform a task of a search inside themselves for a deeper meaning. A formless God, unachievable dreams and unrequited love, the pilgrim chases his desire although it always remains one step away.

It is the use of disparity and representation which develops a gap, somewhere between the work and the viewer or betwixt elements within the work which creates space and disorientation – an opportunity for experience. The crossing of the threshold into liminality, the gap between the representation and what it represents, the opportunistic doorway all combine to create the circumstances of the sublime; it is the viewers willingness to explore the space that completes the work. The gap between religion and faith, the space between the universe and humanity, the gradual merging of country and city and the desire to capture the sun.

My work is often captured in the moment before being represented. Video and photography provide an instant way to capture a moment, and voiceover allows for a disparate element to be introduced in order to exploit space for the viewer to inhabit and allow their own preconceptions to make connections and interpretations of what is represented.

Education

BA (Hons) Fine Art – Nottingham Trent University (2009)

Diploma in Foundation Art and Design – Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College (2006)

Exhibitions

2009

Disclosure – selected by Mark Titchner and Matt Davenport, Broadway Nottingham

Nottingham Trent University Fine Art Degree Show 2009, Bonnington building Nottingham

The Secret Installation Project, The Cuckoo Club, Brighton

Bonington Film ’09, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham

2008

BANG! Short film Festival, Broadway, Nottingham

Making Marks, Hand and Heart Gallery, Nottingham

Made in 24hrs, 121-123 Deptford High Street, London, as part of London Design Festival

Imagine a City, LCB Depot, Leicester

Traversing Territories, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham

Collapse, Part of the ‘It Couldn’t Be Made Up’ series, Surface Gallery, Nottingham

Publications

2009

Narratives of Forgery as part of the Beyond Belief shows Backlit, Nottingham.

2008

Apeiron as part of the It Couldn’t Be Made Up shows, Surface Gallery, Nottingham

2006

Nottingham Evening Post, 7/12/2006 – interview and image

Ongoing

Reviews placed on http://www.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviewers/single/54207

Magazine Features

Blog quoted in a-n magazine April 2009

Blog quoted in a-n magazine March 2009

Blog quoted and image in a-n magazine Nov 2008

Other Experience

2009

Catalogue design for Nottingham Trent Degree Show 2009

Assistant to Folke Kobberling at Surface Gallery, Nottingham as part of Radiator Festival 2009

Volunteer for Trampoline event as part of Radiator 2009 – Exploits in the Wireless City

Invigilation at Hand and Heart gallery, Nottingham

2008

Apprentice to Dave Young as part of the ‘Imagine a City’ project, Leicester.

Assistant/performer/volunteer for Tether at Free Range, Truman Brewery London