London 1981 London.
Education
2018 Urban Glass, New York (Scholarship)
2009-2011 MFA Fine Art, Painting, Slade School of Art, UCL
2002-2005 BA (hons) Fine Art, Painting, Chelsea College of Art, UAL
2000-2001 Foundation Fine Art Diploma, Chelsea College of Art, UAL
Prizes/Grants
2022 Creative Futures, Allia & Tower Hamlets
2020 Time Space Money, A-N & ACE
2015 Beers London, Contemporary Visions VI, Shortlisted
2012 Jerwood Drawing Prize, Shortlisted
2011 Threadneedle Prize, Finalist
2010 Mat Roberts Salon Art Prize, Shortlisted
2010 Marmite Prize for Painting, Shortlisted
Select Exhibitions:
2024:East Meets West, Bury St Edmond’s Art Museum
2022: La Danse, London Graphic Centre, London
2021: Colour, Pigment & Poetry, University College London
2019: The Nomenclature of Colours, UCL
2018: Practice: in Progress, NARS Foundation, NY
2018: Daddy’s Books, Life Lessons, NY
2017: Transumanza, Con Arts, NY
2017: Bearings, NARS Foundation, NY
2017: Heads, The Java Project, NY
2016: Mothership, The Sawmills London (touring to Bruton Art Factory, Somerset)
2015: Re-Launch, UCL Art Museum, London
2015: Pause, Studio 4, Chisenhale Art Place
2014 : Art Car Boot Fair, Folkestone
2014: New Georgians, Orleans House Gallery, Richmond
2013: Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art
2013: New British, Lloyds Club
2013: London Art Fair, Hoxton Gallery
2012 : Without Walls, Chisenhale Art Place Biennale
2012: Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space (touring to MAC, & Jerwood Hastings)
2012: (De)Constructions, Rollo Gallery, London
2012: Threadneedle Space, Mall Galleries, London
2012: Wonderkamma, Hoxton Art Gallery, London
2012: New Painting, North House Gallery, Colchester
2011: Crash Open, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London
2011: Salon 2011, Matt Roberts Gallery, London
2011: Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London
2011: Found: Kettles Yard Pop Up Shop, Brompton Garage
2011: MoreOver, Strang Print Room, University College London
Residencies:
2017 Painting Residency, Con Arts, Manhattan, NY
2011-12 Research Residency, UCL Art Museum
2011 Artist in Residence, Kardo-Findlater Collection
2011 Artist in Residence, The Slade at Heals, Heal’s Store, London
Commissions:
2022: La Danse, Commissioned wall painting for LeFranc Borgeois & London Graphic Centre
2021 Community Art Piece, co-creating a permanent public artwork for Chisenhale Learn, Play, Create
2020 Light Touch, commissioned piece of writing about my connection to The Courtauld
2020 Resilience Project, Artwork Exeter
2015 Burford Lustre, site responsive painting for a private Collection Cotswolds,
2013 Conran Group with D&D London, site responsive painting for East India’s old warehouse in Liverpool Street
2012 Without Walls, Chisenhale Art Place biennial, collaborative project with dancer Victor Fong.
2010 Kardo Findlater Collection, site responsive painting about authenticity and identity.
Talks/Workshops
2022 Artist Mentor, Into The Wild, Chisenhale Art Place
2019 Artist talk and pigment workshop, The Courtauld
2017 Guest Speaker, Residency Unlimited with Liquitex, Brooklyn NY
2015 Guest Speaker, UCL Art Museum
2015 Panelist, Into The Wild, Chisenhale Studios
2012 Visiting Artist, Drawing over the colour Line, Equiano Centre, UCL
2011 Joint Commissioned Artist, La Retraite School & Courtauld Gallery
2010 Visiting Artist, The Animation Workshop, Denmark
Publications
2021 Colour & Poetry, University College London
2018 Daily, Handmade Book ed 50
2018 Portraiture, Teaching Resource, Courtauld Gallery
2017 Transumanza, exh catalogue, Con Arts Gallery
2015 Master as Muse, Goya Teaching Resource, Courtauld Gallery
2015 ReLaunch, UCL Press, Exh Catalogue
2012 In Company, Peter Lely Teaching Resource, Courtauld Gallery
2011 Land, Touch, Body, Weight, University College London
Press/Interviews
2019: Art Unleached, interview with artist Johnathan
2018 Artists at Work, Coutauld Gallery Blog
2016: Life As a Human, Review of Mothership Exhibition
2012: We Are Conran, Old Bengal Warehouse
2012 ArtLyst, Review London Art Exhibitions
2012 Shoreditch Radio, Review Wunderkamma at Hoxton Art
2011 BBC News online Female Artist top Threadneedle
2011 Jotta, Slade School of Fine Art Degree Show
2011 Living Etc. (Painting Featured in Gelato Colours), May 2011
2011 Time Out, No. 2001, Slade at Heals critics choice plus interview
2011 Creative Review Blog, The Slade at Heals