The concept of drawing is the subject of my work, focusing on the crucial role of materiality within an essential language of drawing. My current work uses graphite as both mark-making tool and as a material for the physical structure, allowing the qualities of the material to determine the form of the work.
The concept of drawing is the subject of my work, focusing on the crucial role of materiality within an essential language of drawing. My current work uses graphite as both mark-making tool and as a material for the physical structure, allowing the qualities of the material to determine the form of the work.
My research stems from an explorative play with materials, and is supported by an active engagement with the intersection of New Materialism and drawing. I am interested in how the drawn gesture is embedded within material spatial objects, the material becoming activated through its density of weight and mark, or delicate gossamer thinness. The sculptural forms sit between muteness and clamour, interacting with the architecture of the space they are sited within. I aim to focus on the doing of material to explore the shifting physicality of drawing as an art practice.
Education
2021 - 2025 - PhD Candidate Fine Art, University of Leeds (AHRC WRoCAH Scholarship)
2020 Leeds City College – Level 3 Award in Education and Training
2019 University of Leeds – MA Fine Art, Distinction
2010 Chelsea College of Art & Design – BA Fine Art, First Class Honours
2007 Leeds College of Art & Design – Foundation Diploma Art & Design
Group exhibitions
Tracks and Traces, Air Gallery, Online exhibition / 2021
Drawing Beyond Itself, Air Gallery, Altrincham / 2020
Becoming After - MA Show, FAHACS, University of Leeds / 2019
Fully Awake, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh / 2019
Origin, Yorkshire Hub, Leeds / 2019
Ones to Watch, Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley / 2019
What is to come of this, Yorkshire House, Leeds / 2019
VOID SETUP (){ VOID DRAW(){, University of Leeds, Leeds / 2018
[dis]junction, FAHACS Project Space, University of Leeds, Leeds / 2018
Editions, The Gallery at Munro House, Leeds / 2017
Paired Apart, Aire Place Studios, Leeds / 2016
Member’s Exhibition, Bank St. Arts, Sheffield / 2015
Summer Exhibition, Pressed, Ottawa, Canada / 2014
Hoard: Towards an Archaeology of the Artists Mind, 3 City West, Leeds / 2013
Postscript, Redbrook Business Park, Barnsley / 2013
Linear Progressions, Shine, Harehills, Leeds / 2012
Interior Lightning, Navigation Warehouse, Wakefield / 2011
Ex 2010, Leeds College of Art and Design, Vernon St, Leeds/ 2010
Chelsea College of Art and Design Degree Show 2010, London / 2010
Xhibit 2010, The Gallery at LCC, London/ 2010
Chateau D’if, Shoreditch Town Hall, London / 2009
Monumental Masons, 17 Osborn St, London / 2009
Interim, Leeds College of Art and Design, Vernon St, Leeds / 2009
Solo exhibition
New Work: An Exhibition of Recent Drawing, Westgate Studios Project Space, Wakefield / 2011
Commissions
International Lighthouse Relay, Folkestone Fringe / 2011
