About

Employing a vivid colour palette, my botanical, bodily landscapes consider the degradation and exploitation of nature. I allude to a ‘manipulated landscape’ of highly cultured flowers and genetically modified plants; reflecting the anthropogenic impact humans have on nature and contemporary cultures obsession with preserving youth and beauty. Using luminous, iridescent hues replicated from the natural world, I consider the hyper-intelligence and otherworldliness of nature; specifically botany and its relationship to the anthropomorphic. I aim to achieve an immersive and sensual visual language of ‘dreamlike fluorescence’ through colour-field techniques, highlighting nature's ethereal, fantastical, sublime qualities.
My work considers the formalisation of flora, its expansive visual language and symbolism. Translating micrographic botanical imagery on a large scale, I assimilate plant to body. I use an intuitive painting style that builds a malleable sense of space and form. Utilising processes of removal, soak staining, layering and stencilling, my botanical works embrace a sense of chance and accentuate paint’s musical and visceral qualities.
Influenced by Abstract Expressionism, my recent works, whilst representational, focus more so on colour relations, harmonious hues and simplified forms. I combine abstract elements with ordinary subject matter; reproducing otherworldly scenes filtered and processed through memory and imagination.
Exhibitions
Education
MFA Painting: Camberwell College of Arts, 2021
BA (Hons) Painting: Edinburgh College of Art, 2020
SHADOWS WE CAST//KOPPEL STATION, Rosslyn Hill, London (10-22May 2023)
REGROUP COLLECTIVE//ESPACIO GALLERY, Bethnal Green, London
(9th-13thNov 2022)
THE IRIDESCENT COLLECTION
Made In Arts London,TM Lighting Gallery
(29thOct -7thJan 2022)
NO FORMAT GALLERY//CASTING HOUSE
Deptford, London
(10-14th Nov 2021)
GRADUATE SHOWCASE
CAMBERWELL/SOUTH LONDON GALLERY
10-17th Sept 2021
UNMUTE//COPELAND GALLEY
Peckham, London
(24/27th June 2021)
IN REAL LIFE//A-B GALLERY
Camberwell College of Arts
(15thDec-14thJan 2021)
(RE)MERGE//PROJECT SPACE
Edinburgh College of Art
(13th March 2020)
BUFFERING//SCULPTURE COURT
Edinburgh College of Art
(4th-6thFeb 2020)
3RD BASE//SCULPTURE COURT
Edinburgh College of Art
(15th-25th March 2019)
WALK THIS WAY//WEST BARNS GALLERY
Dunbar
(22nd March 2019)
MATERIAL DIALOGUE//LAURISTON FIRE STATION
Lady Lawson Street
(10th-12th Dec 2018)
