As a busy graduate, I struggle to find enough time for my own work. This past summer I was lent a small cottage on the sea for a week allowing me to absorb the beauty of the Scottish coastline and easy access to my work created on the floor of the Demarco Barn Gallery in Skateraw. Fission II is based on the chain reactions that go on to produce energy and how only tiny elements and particles can ultimately produce vast amounts of energy. This compares to the relatively small number of people working at the power station who contribute to a greater network of energy for communities in Britain. The hands are imporant because they represent the uniquely individual tools/symbols with which we all work. As a student I had been interested in the physics of energy, thermodynamics, states or order and disorder and how all of this tied into the process and repetition in making art and processes and repetition in nature. Fission, as a term in history, was originally only used for the division of living cells so the drawing's association with living things recalls its past.

born: 1982, Southampton, Canada

education

Edinburgh College of Art, MFA, 2006
Xavier University, BFA 2004

selected awards/honors

University of Edinburgh Award, 2006
Xavier University's Art Award, 2004.
Third place, Tenth Annual Juried Arts Exhibit, Jasper Arts Center, Jasper, IN, 2003
Cincinnati Three Arts Scholarship, 2002, 2003, 2004

selected publications

Liberal Artist, Greg Schaber. Xavier Magazine Fall 2004
Recht, Stacy. "Emergence into Art" CityBeat, February 18, p. 24, 2004
llustrated Children's Book, "PaPaw has Allysimers" by Sharon McMillan, Harmony House Publishers, Goshen, KY, 2000

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Xavier University Solo Senior Thesis exhibit, Cincinnati, OH, 2004

selected group shows

"Do something for Wildness and Make the Mountains Glad," Group Exhibition, Skateraw, Dunfermline Scotland, 2006
Royal School Academy Show, Group Exhibition, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2005, 2006
Edinburgh College of art Degree show, Edinburgh College of Art, 2005
"Hello Neighbour!" Group Exhibition at Cell 77, Edinburgh, Scotland 2004