About
My main inspiration is the absurdness in everyday life and how people spend their time after being plopped onto the Earth with no ultimate direction. It’s a scary, messy thing being a human and we have to interpret ourselves in relation to our surroundings, experiences, and what people have done before us, and how that has been recorded.
I'm interested in how we create expectations to live by. The human world feels very broken and I like to escape that by making up fictional life forms to explore what life might be like without all the humanness.
It would be easy to drown whilst thinking of how absurd human existence is. I stay afloat with a certain kind of creative energy maintained through play and creating what I think are gorgeous thing that make me feel the most awake and positively reactive to life.
I've worked with some wonderful clients across digital art, sculpture, drawing and print making and exhibited and taught internationally. Here are some of my favourite projects (You may notice there's a bit of a gap between 2022 and 2024...I had decided to go and be 'sensible' for a while. It was crap, I don't recommend it. New work coming soon and my shop will also be returning in 2025!).
2014: MFA Fine Art, Wimbledon College of Art, UAL, London
2011: BA Hons Contemporary Art Practice, University of Leeds
2022
- The Island of Lost Souls - group show, London 16th -19th June
2021
- Interview with The Flux Review
- Featured Artist - Lakes and Dales Cultural Vision, Mini documentary
- Flux Review Virtual Summer Exhibition (Part 3) - Flux Review 10th July - 10th Aug
- Come Outside, online exhibition. Roisin Projects July 5th - 19th July
- Lump It, online group exhibition, Wysing Broadcasts, July 1st
- Instagram Residency for Orbit June 7th-13th
- Children's Spring Workshops, Eden District Council
- Children's Paracosm workshops, Private sessions
2020
- Elected membership to the Royal Society of Sculptors (paused)
- Children's Workshops - partnership with Mini Eden
- Group Exhibition - New Doggerland, Thames-Side Studios, London
- Illustrations - Table Legs, The Cat Who Wouldn't Go Outside, and Kuku Comes Home, Fonetti App, Auris Tech
2019
- Solo Exhibition - The Land Lumps, Ruskins, Kendal, England
2018
- Solo Exhibition, Wonderlands, Art23 Art Gallery, Guangzhou, China
- Self Publishing: The Land Lumps Colouring Book
- Tutor: Summer School Art Tutor, Xiajiaer Art Training School, North China
2017
- International Artist Residency, Art23 Gallery, Guangzhou, China
- Tutor: Summer School Art Tutor, Xiajiaer Art Training School. Shenzhen, China
- Programme Leader: Learning English Through Art education series, Art23 Guangzhou
- Tutor: Portfolio Program, Art23 School, Graduate and Undergraduate students, Guangzhou
- Artist Lead: Book Swap Boxes project with the Shamian School. for Guangzhou Council, Guangzhou
- Speaker: Studying Art Abroad Event, Art23 Gallery, Guangzhou
- Speaker: International Art Education, UN Bookstore, Guangzhou
- Greeting Card Designer for Central 23/Urban Outfitters
2016
- Window Display: 'Pip the Royal Gondolier' for The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, 2016
- Illustrations: Wonderful Walks with Words Books one and Two -Written by C.L Farrell
- Illustrations: When the Boats Sailed In - Written by C.L. Farrell
- Illustration: Graithwaite Estate Map.
- Illustrations: Strangers to Ourselves E.P cover
2015
- Illustrations: 'George and Praline's Lake District Adventure' commission for The Lakes International Comic Art Festival,
- Competition winner: 'Drawn Outdoors' for Millican
- Illustration: 'Crepe Party' for Simmon's Creperie, London
2014
- Group Exhibition: MFA Show - Wimbledon College of Art, London
- Group exhibition: 'Exquisite Corpse' Islington Arts Factory, London
- Group exhibition: 'Philosophy' 5th Base Gallery, Brick Lane, London
- Group exhibition: 'Threads' - The Rag Factory, London
2013
- Group exhibition 'Raw Talent' - Hoxton Gallery, London
- Group exhibition - Wimbledon Space, London
2012
- Group Exhibition: 'Samsara' - Samsara Gallery, Kendal
- Event organiser: The Big Draw, Dickie Doodles, Kendal
- Curator and Exhibitor: 'Colour in the Auld Grey Town' - Ruskins, Kendal
- Curator and Exhibitor: 'Inside/Outside' - Ruskins, Kendal
-Curator and Exhibitor: 'Premier' - Ruskins,, Kendal
2011
- Solo Exhibition: The Bean Fields - Ruskins, Kendal
2010
- Group Exhibition: BA Graduation Show, University of Leeds
