STATEMENT
I am a visual artist and make 2-d work using printmaking, collage and video.
My work explores how we see landscape, history and the natural world through pictures. (They could be in a coffee table book on geology or a cinematic prehistoric reconstruction.)
I am currently drawn to the stylised European landscapes of the 1700s. These are often made up of a set of pictorial elements such as far distance and large scale foreground trees. They feature small people staged and striking exaggerated poses in costume.
I use myself to recreate poses. In this instance, I have tried to match figures in Watteau’s paintings, and Goya’s sketches.
Collage allows me to harvest the elements, play with poses, setting up interactions from then on with an intuitive approach. The rough cut outs, masking tape, drop shadows and inky marks all show.
In my studio, I have a gelli printing plate and a green screen backdrop for photography. I like the tension between the traditional print materials and video illusions.
My work is influenced by early film and optical analogue effects, which can delight and mystify, even in the an age of CGI. I am intrigued by the Claude glass used by travellers to observe scenery during the Grand Tour (also used for scrying)
Additionally, I make prints of flat objects, depicting them at 100% scale; a tourist fan, a striped paper bag, a souvenir anointing spoon. Like the landscape, they interact with the figures. They are artefacts of our time, rich in their own origins and stories.
BIO
Born in Brighton, UK / Works in Lewes, UK.
Recent exhibitions include
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2025 / What Happened Next? Safe House Peckham / Artists In a Bed, Adelaide Salon, UK / PaperWorks Newhaven Art Space, UK 2024 / Royal Academy Summer Show 2023 / Sussex Contemporary Open / Co-Curator of MUD, Artwave since 2017 / Empty Space, Yorkshire 2016 /
Past Exhibitions include: Friday Night Saturday Told, Reykjavik 2003, Strange Birds New Orleans 2009
Collections
Laniston Collection Dublin / UAL Collection London
Studied at Chelsea College of Art (BA) and Royal College of Art (MARCA)
Publications: ROSA magazine studio visit Spring 2025
CV follows
| 1992-94 | MA Fine Art Printmaking | Royal College of Art |
| 1990-92 | BA Fine Art Printmaking | Chelsea College of Art |
Exhibitions
| 2026 | UPCOMING ACT 0 Curate by Adelaide Salon. Group Show with Isobel Smith, The Baron Gilvan and Bob Dixon. 1-25 May | The Dome, Founders Room Gallery, Brighton, Sussex |
| Newhaven Open Call, NAS | BN9, Newhaven, Sussex | |
| 2025 | Small Works, Newhaven Art Projects | Newhaven, Sussex |
| Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2025 Curated hang | Woolwich, London | |
| What Happened Next? October 2025. Group show. Curated by Sara Bjornsdottir | The Safe House, Peckham, London | |
| Artists in a Bed. Performance, curated by Paulina An Zorge | Adelaide Salon, Hove Sussex | |
| Voices of the River: Participant in Tate Gallery, HTRC Transnational, TBA21 and Love Our Ouse workshop | Tate / Sussex | |
| Studio visit. ROSA Review of Sussex Arts magazine. Spring edition ’25 | ||
| 2024 | Royal Academy Summer Show Great Weston Room selected by Cornelia Parker | RA, London |
| Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair Directors Cut | ||
| PaperWorks | Newhaven Art Space | |
| Sussex Contemporary Open, | BN9, Newhaven UK | |
| Newhaven Open Call, Newhaven Art Projects, UK | ||
| 2017- 2025 | Co-curator of MUD | Artwave festival, Sussex, UK |
| 2019 | Screening of FLAXMAN. Marcia’s Farquhar’s The Dog’s Bolex | Whitechapel Gallery, London |
| Artists at Glynde Place | Glynde Place, Sussex, UK | |
| Matter | Glynde Place, Sussex, UK | |
| 2018 | FLAXMAN screened at Difficuλt. Collaboration with Marcia Farqhuar & Victoria Harwood. | CPG Gallery, London |
| Mrs Benn | Mrs Benn, Brockely, London | |
| Artists at Glynde Place | Glynde Place, Sussex, UK | |
| Chalk Pit | Glynde Place, Sussex, UK | |
| 2017 | White Trash, Gun Girls and Riots. London Short Film Festival. Gun Girls screened with Q & A | ICA, London |
| 51 Zero Festival Screening of ‘How I Express Myself’ | Chatham Historic Dock Yard, Kent, UK | |
| Bird Boxes | Glynde Station curated by Isobel Smith, Rural Art Mission | |
| 2016 | Common Sense | Empty Space, Holme, Yorkshire, UK |
| 2015 | Possible Object. Collaboration with Jo Addison. Stop Bugging Me | Tintype Gallery, Islington, London |
| 2014 | Holmfirth Art Week | Empty Space, Holme, Yorkshire, UK |
| 2013 | Decommissioning Shapewear (artist and curator) | Feminist Times project with Charlotte Raven. London. |
| A Universe in My Garden | Empty Space, Holme, Yorkshire, UK | |
| 2012 | Open Studios show | The Papered Parlour, London |
| 2011 | Nunhead Open | London |
| 2010 | Exquisite Corpse | Core Gallery, Deptford, London |
| 2009 | Strange Birds | Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, USA |
| 2008 | Picture House | Picture House Cinema, Greenwhich, London |
| 2007 | Move Me | Pacific Playhouse, Southwark, London |
| 2006 | O-Maps | Jem Finer, Oxford, UK |
| 2005 | Snapper | Brixton Market, London |
| 2003 | Friday Night, Saturday Told | Gallry Skuggi, Reykjavik, Iceland |
| 2002 | Art Pal | Marcia Farquhar, Munich, Germany |
| 2001 | Five Habits for Being Effective | Brewer Street, London |
| 1999 | Soft City | House Gallery, Camberwell, London |
| Passion | Gasworks, London | |
| 24 Frames of Separation | Brixton, London | |
| Shopping | FAT projects, Carnaby Street, London | |
| 1998 | Adhocracy | Gallery Herold, Bremen |
| Whitechapel Open Studios | The Foundry, Old Street, London | |
| Beach Life | FAT projects, Islington, London | |
| 1997 | Special Offer | Plaatsmaken Gallery, Arnhem, Netherlands |
| Special Offer. Co-curator with Tony Campbell | Calvert Avenue, Shoreditch, London | |
| Class Vegas | The Embassy, Islington, London | |
| Wait and See What’s for Dinner. Commission & collaboration with Jo Addison. Curated by Kate Fowle. | Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne | |
| 1996 | Bitter Twist | Unge Kunstneres Samfund, Oslo, Norway |
| Bitter Twist | Margaret Harvey Gallery, St. Albans, UK | |
| Hijack flyposters | New York, USA James Coleman Fine Ar | |
| Gun Girls, film collaboration with Victoria Harwood. Screenings. | London, Finland, Toronto, Taiwan, UK’s Rapture TV & BBC UK Arena. | |
| 1994 | Make Believe. (Third prize winner) | South Bank Photography Show Royal Festival Hall, London |
| Alternative Arts Summer Show | Marleybone, London | |
| Adsite & Outpost | FAT projects, Edinburgh Festival and Venice Biennale | |
| Second International Student Biennale | Barcelona, Spain |
Bibliography
| 2025 | ROSA magazine – Spring issue | Studio Visit |
| 2019 | The Dog’s Bolex | Book by Marcia Farquhar |
| 2013 | Decommissioning Shapewear. | The Feminist Times. Online magazine |
| 2003 | Morgunbladid (Reykjavik) | p24, 23 May. |
| DV (Reykjavik) | p15. | |
| 1997 | Nov/Dec p.87, Review Neil Brown | Frieze |
| Time Out | Martin Coomer | |
| 1996 | Dagbladet (Oslo) | 15 May, Nye Briter, Harald Flor |
| Aften Posten (Norway) | 7 May, Young Brits with a twisted view of Life, John Harbo | |
| 1995 | Untitled | Author of review of Natural Settings at Chelsea Physic Garde. p21 |
| The Independent | 2 Aug Don’t Scoff, John Windsor | |
| The Guardian | 19 Aug Making a meal of it, Laura Cumming | |
| Kaleidoscope | Radio 4 15 Aug, Review | |
| Arnhemse Courant (Arnhem) | 15 May, Review, Henk Meutgert | |
Collections
| 2024 | Paper Bag (Red) | Lanistown Collection |
| 2010 | Prehistoric Landscape | UAL collection |
Lucy Newman | Visual artist, UK 