ABOUT
My practice is a playful one of meandering, manipulated poetic simple incidents.
When creating a body of work I tend to find a simple system of construction and then allow it to evolve naturally, never within a restricted or arduous manner but composing mischievous and animated constructions often humorously disrupted.
Notions of weight, balance, replication, and implied function help dictate the construction but can then become redundant to its ultimate installation, finalized at the last moment in the excitement of its surroundings.
Manipulateing found materials and ready-made objects into beguiling sculptural works that play with notions of proportion and balance. With its intricate sense of touch, recalling the work of modernist Constructivism, albeit contaminated by a sense of the contemporary world, evident in the domestic source materials used to make the work.
I am represented in the UK by the Simon Oldfield Gallery.
Biography
b. Maidstone, Kent, 1981. Lives and works in London
Education
PG Dip Fine Art, Royal Academy of Arts, 2004 – 2007
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, 2001 – 2004
Selected Exhibitions
ING Discerning Eye, London 2014
Flat Packed/Wrapped/Stacked, Punk and Sheep, London 2014
Drawn Together, Gig Munich, Munich Germany, 2014
London Design Week, RCF company London 2014
Revealed2: CollectorSpace, Samstag museum, Adelaide Australia, 2013
The Basement at 6 Carlos Place, Simon Oldfield, London, 2012 (solo)
Pop Molecule, Aubin gallery, London, 2012
Fragile Construct, Simon Oldfield, London, 2011 (solo)
Apartment at Bloomsbury Square, London 2011
Friendship of the Peoples, Simon Oldfield, London, 2011
Superrefraction, Vulpes Vulpes, London, 2010
Modern Love, Simon Oldfield, London, 2010
The Armory, Josh Lilley, New York, 2009
A Broken Fall, Josh Lilley, London, 2009
Evolved Means, Allsopp Contemporary, London, 2008 (solo)
Monster, Dazed and Confused, London, 2008
Royal Academy Schools Show, Royal Academy, London, 2007
ASP-KRK-RAS-LDN, WI snicz Castle, Poland, 2006
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2006
Premiums, Royal Academy, London, 2006
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, 2005
Future Map, University of the Arts, London, 2004
Awards
Patricia Turner Award for Sculpture, 2007
The Andres & Nicholas Tooth Award, 2006
the studio
me in the studio