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Biography

Often drawn to analogue publications and printed matter by their physical presence and pre-digital imagery. Her work allows the artefacts and related imagery to lead the formation of works. Drawing upon figuration, landscape and cultivation, her work manifests itself through collage and sculpture, creating a new set of suggested narratives. Small scale details from the pages become monstrous through enlargement and her Frankenstein approach to collaging and assemblage. This coupled with industrial remnants, such as hooks, clamps, reels and latex create familiar, yet uneasy, objects. Commodification of the female body is explored through combination of image and objects. Often layered, punctured, stitched and assembled to emphasise surface and tactility, the work aims to elicit a physical reaction from the viewer.

Education

2002 - 2004 MA Fine Art Painting, Royal College of Art, London

1998 - 2001 BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting Winchester School of Art

Selected Exhibitions

2024

Seeing Red: Chapel Art Studios, Andover

Foraged & Forged: spudWORKS, New Forest (joint solo show)

2023

Assembly Line: They Come They Sit They Go, London

Twenty Years: Union Gallery London

Multiple Universe: Union Gallery London and Foyer Gallery UCA Farnham

The Cutting Room: Leeds Arts University

Weirder Science: Artsy, curated by Karen S David

To Be Seen: Artsy, curated by Greg Rook

2022

Assembly Line: Manchester Contemporary, Manchester

Horror Show: Somerset House, London

Barbarians at the Gate: SuperRare Spaces, curated by Greg Rook (Blackbird and Rook Contemporary)

If These Walls Could Talk: Parlour Gallery, London

2021

Vexations: Imperial College, London

AFTER_image: Blyth Gallery, London

I Didn’t Lick it: Bruton Museum and other locations, Bruton, Somerset

Pretty Ugly: Thameside Studios, London

Life on Venus: Tub Gallery, London

2020

Nothing ‘is’ Immediate: Art Space Portsmouth, Portsmouth (Date TBC)

Housebound: Chapel Arts Studios, Andover (Online Exhibition)

Viral: Kyle Marks Gallery, Calgary (Online Exhibition)

Greenness is a Kind of Grief: Y.A.R.D. Projects, Brighton (Online Exhibition)

2019

Allhallowtide: Art Space Portsmouth, Portsmouth

Heimweh: Art Space Portsmouth, Portsmouth

2018

Pint Size: Brewery Tap Gallery, Folkestone

Open Call: Atlas House Gallery, Ipswich

When Our Lips Speak Together: James Hockey Gallery, UCA Farnham

2017

Revolve:R: Hours gallery, Bristol

2013

In Dreams: The Cob Gallery, London

Then, Now and After: University of Brighton, Brighton

Pneu: Electro Studios Project Space, St. Leonards-on-Sea

2012

Mererid: Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales

Polemically Small: Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham

2011

She Devil: MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy

Slapstick to Horror: Touring Show Reel (Latitude Festival and Whitstable Biennale)

The Future is Now: Torrance Art Museum, California

The Secret Language of Flowers: Andipa Gallery, London

2010

Nature is the Church of Satan: Touring Show Reel (Latitude Festival and Whitstable Biennale)

2009

Flower Power: Villa Giulia, CRAA Centro Ricerca Arte Attuale, Italy

Drawing Lines: Schuebbe Projects, Düsseldorf, Germany

Darkness Visible: The Belltable, Limerick, Ireland

The Space Between: St Pancras Crypt, London

Angels of Perversity: Cross Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Mixing Memory and Desire: Villa Fabri, Trevi, Italy

Darkness Visible: Cavan Museum, Cavan, Ireland (Touring)

2008

Little Death: Nettie Horn Gallery, London (Solo Show)

Darkness Visible: Galway Arts Centre, Ireland (Touring)

Et Pendant Ce Temps: Nettie Horn Gallery, London

Sex & Witchcraft: Transition Gallery, London

2007

Wintry: Lounge Gallery, London

Beauhemia: Nettie Horn Gallery, London

2006

Grotto: Studio 1.1 Gallery, London

The Celeste Art Award: The Well, Old Truman Brewery, London

2005

The Hollow Salon: Hollow Contemporary, London

New Romantic: The Hospital Gallery, Covent Garden, London

Over Mensen en de Dinge (Of People and Things): Museum Z33, Hasselt Triennial, Belgium

Young Masters: 148a St. John Street, London

2004

From Here to Eternity (and Back Again): Generator Projects, Dundee

Careful What You Wish For: Seven Seven Gallery, London

2003

Don't You Forget About Me: Studio Voltaire, London

2001

Dis/Order(?): The Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth (Solo Show)

Curatorial Projects

2021

Afterimage: Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London

Greenness is a Kind of Grief: Brighton Venue TBC

2020

Greenness is a Kind of Grief: Y.A.R.D. Projects, Brighton (Online Exhibition)

Inertia For Superior Souls: Bargehouse, Oxo Tower, London

2019

Allhallowtide: Art Space Portsmouth, Portsmouth

No Fit State: Asylum Space, Peckham

Heimweh: Art Space Portsmouth, Portsmouth

2013

Species of Spaces: The Big Screen at Latitude Festival

2012

Animated Abstractions: The Big Screen at Latitude Festival

2007

The Joy: Nettie Horn Gallery, London

2006

Second Nature: Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London

2004

Substance Abuse: The Chambers Gallery, London

Art Fairs

2009

Pulse Art Fair: New York - Nettie Horn Gallery

2007

Year 07: County Hall - London - Nettie Horn Gallery

Aqua Art Fair: Miami - USA - Nettie Horn Gallery

Awards and Publications

Publication: Revolve:R - Edition 3 (Spring 2020)

Publication: Revolve:R - Edition 2 (Summer 2017)

Publication: Circa Magazine - Issue 126 (Winter 2008)

Publication: Darkness Visible (GAC catalogue) 2008

Publication: Garageland Magazine - Spring 2008 (Supernatural Issue)

Publication: Critical Friend - Number 7 - August 2007

Publication: Celeste Art Prize - A Survey of Painting in the UK - 2006

Publication: Among Artists & Organisations - Limburg Platform Beeldende Kunsten - 2006

Publication: Over de Mensen en de Dingen - Autumn 2005

Publication: Crossfields issue 1 - Summer 2005

Publication: ARC (RCA journal) Spring issue - 2004

Publication: Twenty Years of the Aspex Gallery - 2002

Award: Celeste Art Prize (Finalist) - May 2006

Award: Neville Burston Memorial - Royal College of Art - June 2004

Award: National Grid Transco (Runner-up) - June 2004

Residencies

2011

Artist's Studio Residency: Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales

2010

Helsinki International Artist's Program: Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland

2007

Summer Residency Award: Scottish Sculpture Workshop - Aberdeenshire

Collections

The David Roberts Collection UK

Private Collections in Europe and USA

Current Employment

University for the Creative Arts Farnham – Senior Lecturer in Fine Art

University for the Arts London – Visiting Lecturer (CSM Short Courses)