Biography

Traces Hold Time and Time ≠ Money.

Rather than seeking metaphor, narrative or symbol my prints aim to capture dynamic forces, to create images that resonate with viewers on a visceral level, telling of the evolving, time dependant, elusive vitality of everything.

Operating between choice and chance, employing the alchemy of print, I attempt to enact and evoke something of the processes of the natural world, where flow and obstacle, resistance and corrosion, excavation and sedimentation during the creation of the plate and the compression of ink and paper in the press, capture traces of forces at work.

Traces that can hold both time and space, the stirrings of obscured processes and swarms of otherly forms, in time out of joint at twisted crossroads.

From my background in theatre and screen design and crafts, I bring a tactile sensitivity and intuitive feel for materials. As a breakdown artist and prop maker I honed my attention to the textures of weathering, erosion, sedimentation, accumulation and wear and to the actions of forces, tearing, twisting, scraping, attraction, repulsion, compression, release, time and gravity—sensibilities that now underpin my collaborations with substances.

I studied post graduate Diploma Theatre Design at Croydon College, for an MA at  Middlesex University (CASCAD) in Computing in Art and Design and have experimented with a range of print making processes in courses at The Art Academy, Morley College, City Lit and East London Printmakers.

I have worked as Prop-maker, Breakdown Artist, 3d Animator and Visiting Lecturer at UAL Camberwell.

My work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Linden Hall Gallery, Oxo Tower Gallery and the Horsebridge Whitstable.

I am a member of the Printmakers Council and Associate Member of East London Printmakers.