education

Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge M.A. Printmaking

University of Central England Birmingham P.G.C.E. Art and Design

Nottingham Trent University B.A. (Hons.) Fine Art

Lincolnshire College of Art and Design

BTEC National Diploma in General Art and Design

selected exhibitions

2008 Royal Society of Portrait Painters Mall Galleries

2007 Re:Mark R.K.Burt Gallery London

Re:Mark Ruskin Gallery Cambridge

2006 ‘Beyond the call of duty' New Town Hall Galleries Ipswich

Naze Tower Gallery Walton on Naze Essex

Eastern Open King's Lynn Arts Centre

Showcase Doric Arts King's Lynn/ Holt

2005 Artist in residence Firstsite @ Minories Colchester

‘Regular features' Buckenham Galleries Southwold

‘Khalo's contemporaries' University Gallery Essex

‘Out of town' Babylon Gallery Ely

2003/4 Eastern Open King's Lynn Art's Centre

2002 Over The River group show Wolsey Gallery Ipswich

Eastern Open King's Lynn Arts Centre

2000 Artists in Essex Epping Forest Museum Waltham Abbey

Green Room solo show Hay Gallery Colchester

1999 BP Portrait Award National Portrait Gallery London

Green Room solo show Firstsite Colchester

1998 BP Portrait Award National Portrait Gallery London

Studio in a square Firstsite Colchester

Artists in Essex Wetzlar Germany

1997 On the Border Minories Art Gallery Colchester

1996 Drawings for all Gainsborough's House Sudbury

awards

2006 Doric Award Eastern Open King's Lynn Arts Centre

2005 Commission University Gallery Essex University

2002 Best in show Award Eastern Open King's Lynn Arts Centre

2000 Short-listed for B.P.Portrait Award Travel Prize N.P.G.

‘The word glamour was originally an early Scots corruption of the

word 'grammar' reflecting the magical power through which it

organised the writing which had recently arrived amongst them,

so glamorous is that which is magically articulated'

Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe ‘ Beauty and the contemporary sublime' 1999

The relationship between space and figure in my work is intended

to be visually uncomfortable, focus and colour are playfully altered

as figures appear to be awkwardly displaced or captivated by their

formal circumstance.

Bathed in saturated artificial light, these recurring figures make loose

reference to the enigmatic and elusive characters of cinema.

In the ‘Domain' series, their context is an amalgam of Baroque spaces,

interior and exterior: a claustrophobic environment, which has evolved

through obsessive childhood recollections of luxurious yet improbable

spaces.

The introduction of the formal interior and garden is intended to

present a fictitious environment, evoking a sense of past which is

essentially ‘fixed' by the saturated use of colour throughout.

My intention is to suggest a visual equivalent to the passage of time,

or more specifically, the evocation of memory erosion.

I aim to suggest the point of disintegration when the image leaves it's

recognisable origin and transforms into a distortion of the truth.

Slipping between the past experienced and the past imagined.