About

I recently secured the support of a development grant from the Arts Council and I have begun to explore the potential use of software and CNC machines in enabling me to create new series of work that exist in between the order of technology and the acts of subverting materials and software. I am working with these processes as a collaboration with the technology and my own use of drawing and artistic intervention.

The new work is an immersion into the rhythmical repetition of marks and motifs, attempting to find form through drawing, screen printing and more recently working into and with Birch plywood. I paint with wood stains and incorporate sanding, burning and routing techniques. Through these processes of building up the layers I capture and then remove the surface, revealing marks, bleeding and stains, which create a tension with the perception of form.

In 2023 having spent along time nurturing a family I started to create work again and I was invited to exhibit at The Old Lock Up Gallery in Derbyshire. This year I have been selected to exhibit at The Ballinglen Biennial Open and this will be the first time I have shown the new artwork.

I am a Nottingham based artist and historically I have created interactive sculptures and exhibited at Bonington Art Gallery, Brighton Art Gallery, Rochdale Art Gallery & Museum and Norwich Museum & Art Gallery. In 2000 I was awarded YOTA working with the seed collection and MRI technology at Wollaton Hall, Natural History Museum. The same year, Craftspace commissioned leather sculptures for a UK touring exhibition and an arts residency at the UHB NHS Cancer Centre. I have been commissioned by The Civic, Barnsley, to collaborate with photographer Gavin Joynt and collaborated with 2hD Architects on sculptural commissions for Lakeside Arts Centre at Nottingham University.