Artist Statement
Each piece begins with an interaction between person and subject. Completely by chance and seemingly out of nowhere I sense something lurking, and once I see it my world freezes. It is the unnoticed and overlooked. And once I notice whatever form it is taking, and no matter how much I try to ignore it, I am unable to; it compels me to look at it, locking itself it my mind. The unnoticed and overlooked stares at me, making direct eye contact and continues to watch me without flinching until I have documented it in some way, either by taking a photograph, or, more likely, drawing the form. It is as if it is reaching out, longing for someone to truly see it without being automatically dismissive, and its only after this has happened does it sit harmoniously back within the environment.
Concerned by the ambiguous and the mundane, the works push gestural qualities and forms found through chance encounters, such as shadows, graffiti and structural components and faults. Through experimentation with the overlapping of elements, methods and textures, the work begins to take on a life of its own and develops intuitively, often reworking and reusing elements in order to produce a dynamic compositional state. Responding and resonating with the matter around us, the paintings oscillate between controlled amplifications of what I call the unnoticed and overlooked. The freedom of intuitive bodily gestures allows me to create a process which harmonizes control and chaos into one meditative creative state. What remains is an index both of the individual forms, amplified and edited during reproduction, and the process of production itself, with brush marks, spray of paint, and oil stick markings reimagining and redeveloping my subject matter into something new; translating the unnoticed and overlooked into something that demands your observation.
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Education
BA Fine Art // University for the Creative Arts
2017 - 2019
Graduated with a First
Eurasmus Placement with PEATS // Cyprus College of Arts
March - April 2018
BA Fine Art // Falmouth University - First year
2016-2017
Exhibitions
2019
Intimately Familiar // Cobham Hall School, Cobham
Group Exhibition. June
Corner to Corner: UCA Canterbury Fine Art Degree Show // UCA Canterbury
Group Exhibition. June
FAB LAB // The Brewery Tap, Folkestone
Group Exhibition. March-April
SHELF: Curatorial Project Space // UCA Canterbury
Group Exhibition. February
2018
Intertwined // Joseph Wales Studio, Margate
Solo Exhibition. April
ΣΙΓΑ ΣΙΓΑ // Cyprus College of Art
Group Exhibition. April
2017
The First Year Show // Falmouth University
Group Exhibition. April
Thrown Gauntlet Festival // Falmouth
Group Exhibition Festival. January
Awards
Platform Graduate Award 2019 // Turner Contemporary
Long-listed