I am currently registered as a PhD Candidate, at Loughborough University, UK, investigating the pictorial and conceptual possibilities of large-scale drawn works, acknowledging connections between concepts of being, nothingness and the sublime. The investigation aims to extend the considerable knowledge of drawing practice by testing the boundaries of the medium, in relation to the subsequent placement/
installation of the completed works. Initially the research has been focused on the creative potential of drawn works to convey complex meanings. Secondly asking the question of how/if the context or placement of the works affects reading of meaning.

The initial starting point for the works followed the death of someone close, a difficult time that led to a period of loss of purpose and meaning. An experience of a night skyscape, the brilliance of light from the moon in an otherwise darkened sky, eleviated the perceived blackness and gave a sense of an entity greater than the self, a feeling I was part of, not seperate to, the world in which I lived. Through the drawings I have attempted to investigate this experience, creating works that have an element of light within the blackness but also exist on the boundaries of fragility and stability, reflecting the transient existence we all have to come to terms with. The works have an appearance of great density and weight but their reality is of 'unfixed' dust on paper. The scale and the fact some include perforations within the surface mean they are extremely fragile in actuality.

 

born: 1969, United Kingdom

education

Loughborough University, PhD Current.
DeMontfort University, MA
DeMontfort University, BA (hons)

selected awards/honors

Pizza Express Contemporary Art Award, Regional Winner.

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Pizza Express, UK, 2000

selected group shows

Tryptch, Irish Museum of Modern art, 2006
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, UK, 2002
Salon 2000, Limner Gallery, NY, USA, 2000