Artist Statement, Exhibitions,
and a bit about me.
Artist Statement
Reality: Is the world the way we think it is? In what ways might our version of reality be distorted? Does it matter? Is there Absolute Truth? Can the Truth ever be fully known?
Perception: Reflections and refractions play with our perception, as does our inclination to see patterns in the random. In what sense is what I’m seeing ‘real’?
Our natural instinct is to make sense of the world and our place in it. Towards that end, my work explores the tension between reality and perception, to create spaces where we can make up our own narrative in complete safety.
Exhibitions
Inquiry in Action 9th - 11th June 2022
PDRA NN Contemporary Art, Vulcan Works, Fetter Street, Northampton NN1 1EW
Previous Exhibitions
2021/2022
Kaleidoscope, Abington Museum and Gallery, Park Avenue South, NN1 5LW
2021
OCTOBER
South Northamptonshire Art Trail, 2nd - 10th October 2021
Bradden Village Hall, Bradden, Towcester NN12 8EJ
SEPTEMBER
Northamptonshire Open Studios,
J Gallery, West Street, Moulton NN3 7SB
Jeyes Gallery of Earls Barton, 27 The Square, Earls Barton NN60NA
Abington Museum and Gallery, Park Avenue South, NN1 5LW
AUGUST
Covid Creations and Stories, Group exhibition, St Mary's Church, Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire
JULY/AUGUST
New Horizons. Group exhibition online. The Heseltine Gallery, Banbury, Oxfordshire
2020
'Anamnesis,' https://www.thelanguageofbells.com/composers-table.html
OCTOBER
South Northamptonshire Art Trail
2019
MAY
Print Fellowship group show, University of Northampton
Portmonteau 2018 - Campus, University of Northampton
South Northamptonshire and North Oxfordshire Annual Selected Open Exhibition, The Heseltine Gallery, Banbury, Oxfordshire
MARCH - APRIL
The Big Picture, The Heseltine Gallery, Banbury, Oxfordshire
MARCH
Chromantics, The Cornerstone Gallery, Didcot, Oxfordshire
2018
JULY
FreeRange, Old Truman Brewery, 81 Brick Lane, London
JUNE
Degree Show, University of Northampton, Northampton
FEBRUARY
‘Between Friends’, Group Show, St. Stephens Walbrook, London
2017
APRIL/MAY
Lamport Hall Art, Craft & Design Fair, Lamport, Northamptonshire
MARCH
Women at Work, Project Space, NN Gallery, Northampton
2016
JUNE
‘Internecine’, University of Northampton
MAY
‘Resonance 20×20’; print exhibition, the Print Room, University of Northampton
May Forecast Public Art Festival, Lamport Hall, Lamport , Northamptonshire
FEBRUARY
‘Notes to Self’; print exhibition, the Print Room, University of Northampton
2015
DECEMBER
Christmas Show, University of Northampton
Avenue Campus Project, University of Northampton
MAY
Middleton Cheney Art Group Show, Chacombe Village Hall, Northamptonshire
2014
MAY
South Northamptonshire and North Oxfordshire Annual Selected Open Exhibition, Michael Hestletine Gallery, Middleton Cheney, Northamptonshire
Artist Bio
I am a painter who also enjoys print-making and working digitally. Artists who have influenced my work include the Fauvists, the Surrealists and the graphic artist M.C. Escher. I studied Fine Art at the University of Northampton gaining a 1st class honours degree.