Biography

 

Artist Statement

I am a visual artist working in sculpture and installation, based in Kent. My work explores human/non-human cross-species relationships through hybrid sculptural forms. I am particularly interested in the entanglements between humans and livestock, and the surprising ways that non-human agency can arise through these connections. ‘Do Animals Work?’ is the title of an essay by Vinciane Despret, who investigates the ways in which dairy cows can be regarded as workers. This philosophical and ethological enquiry has driven my current work on the labour, agency and visibility of non-humans.

A recent series of works are the  ‘Pelt’ sculptures – cowhide forms made from used hi-vis workwear. These objects bear the tarmac scuffs of their previous life in enigmatic gestures and marks across their surface. I deconstruct these garments and reconfigure them into abstract compositions of fluorescent colour and reflective lines. These objects are both alluring and unsettling; the image of a pelt implies brutality (who gets to keep their skin and who loses theirs?) but also utility – animal hides were used for the earliest human clothing and shelter.

Diverse materiality is at the core of my practice; solidified cows’ milk, beef tallow, sheep’s fleece and recycled hi-visibility workwear are used to make partially abstracted, creaturely forms. I am currently working on a new series of large milk sculptures that plays with ideas of purity and contamination, and attempts to re-enliven the animality of this ubiquitous substance.

I often make work that responds to a specific place. In 2024 I was commissioned by Rotherham Arts, Museums and Heritage to co-create an installation with the local community in the 19th century ‘Waterloo Kiln’. The shapes and colours of the resulting sculptures were directly informed by the neo-Rococo pottery that was once created at the site. In 2023 I did an artist residency at Cambridge Artworks, where I explored the intersections of the surrounding chalk geology and the local folklore. This culminated in an exhibition in 2024 titled ‘GOGMAGOG’. Lastly, in 2022 I created an installation commissioned by Vehicle Arts in the foyer space of Curve Theatre in Leicester, inspired by the local geology.

 

Education

University of North Carolina at Greensboro. USA. MFA in Studio Arts, concentration in Sculpture and Installation. 2015- 2017

University of Brighton. UK. BA Fine Art Sculpture. 2008 – 2011

 

Selected Exhibitions

2025

SNAG Safehouse 2. Peckham

Growing Season Part 2, Lewisham Arthouse

HACK 8558 Shaftesbury Avenue, Bow Arts

2024

Waterloo Kiln Commission, Swinton, Yorkshire.

Material Matters, Safehouse 1 & 2. Peckham.

Seedbomb, Newhaven Open Call. Newhaven, East Sussex.

Growing Season (Part 1) with Coven Collective. Lewisham.

Landslide, MASS Sculpture show, Thames Side Gallery, Woolwich.

Here be Giants, The Sun Inn, Saffron Walden.

GOGMAGOG, Cambridge Artworks. Solo

2023

Let Them Eat Fake, BWG Gallery, Soho.

2022

Memory Into Landscape, Elysium Gallery, Swansea.

Rooted, Sussex Prairie Gardens.

Outrageous Cretaceous, Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Gallery. Solo

Limen, No Format Gallery, Deptford. Solo

2021

The Plymouth Contemporary, Karst Gallery & Levinsky Gallery, Plymouth.

Soft Snacks, Block Gallery, Raleigh and Meredith College. NC USA. International collaboration

Luck & Limen, Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Gallery, Kent. Solo

Force, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Vermont USA.

2020

TAPS Now, Kosar Contemporary, Bristol UK.

2019

Thicket, Tunnel Gallery, Tonbridge School, Kent UK. Solo

Confluence, collaborative site-specific installation, St Mary’s Church Burham, Kent UK.

 

Residencies

Artist in Residence. Cambridge Artworks. June – July 2023

Artist in Residence. The Island, Bristol. January 2021

Artist in Residence. Tonbridge School, Kent. 2019-2020

Artist in Residence. Discover Roman Otford Project, Kent. 2019-2020

Artist in Residence. Jiwar, Barcelona, Spain. August 2018

Artist in Residence. Vermont Studio Center, VT. May 2018

Winter Artist in Residence. Salem Art Works, NY September 2014- March 2015

Visiting Artist. Minoterie 21, Brittany, France. August 2013

Intern Artist. Salem Art Works, NY May-August 2013

Intern Artist. Franconia Sculpture Park, MN August-November 2011.

 

Public Artworks

Waterloo Kiln Commission, Swinton, Yorkshire. Commissioned by Rotherham Museums Arts and Heritage 2024

‘Triassic Slices’ Curve Theatre, Leicester. Commissioned by Vehicle Arts 2022

‘Xenia I & II’ Tonbridge School, commissioned 2020

‘Feast’ Salem Art Works Sculpture Park, New York. Installed 2015. Permanent

‘Summer Something’ Salem Art Works Sculpture Park, New York. Installed 2014. Permanent

 

Awards

Helen A Thrush Scholarship 2016-2017

Howard Scholarship 2016-2017

Adelaide Holderness Graduate Fellow, 2015-2016