“The poet scans the landscape with his hermeneutic gaze, but it remains trackless, refuses to emerge into meaningfulness as a landscape of signs”.

J.M.Coetzee – “Disgrace” – 1999

My aim is to search for portent and potential narrative in the overlooked and seemingly insignificant aspects of the everyday. We are all surrounded by the evidence and detritus of almost 40,000 years of the activity of homo faber, and any landscape can essentially be read as an inescapable narrative of intervention. Therefore, I feel it important to celebrate and high light the over looked elements, the anti-monuments and non-events of that landscape, as I feel that these are equally relevant, when we are attempting to decipher a given landscape. Discarded items, the un-thought about gaps between buildings etc., these all have visual qualities that feed into, and inform our piece meal absorption of our surroundings, that subsequently help us to order and decipher the complexity of the environments we inhabit.
It is my intention as a contemporary artist, to force a reassessment of the everyday. It is my intention to highlight overlooked aspects of the everyday, in order to isolate and represent aspects of the urban environment, with the aim of forging a visual poetry of the commonplace, to elevate the irrelevance of the ordinary.


CURRICULUM VITAE

BORN Warrington

QUALIFICATIONS

1994 M.A. in Fine Art, University of Wales in Cardiff
1983 B.A. Honours in Fine Art, Middlesex University

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 Solo Exhibition, West Wales School of the Arts Gallery
2009 Inbetweenies, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
2009 Open, Westgate Shopping Centre, Oxford
2009 Hole in the Wall, Cardiff
2008 Globe Gallery , Hay on Wye, Herefordshire

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS / INSTALLATIONS

2011 Arewenotdrawntoanewera?, G39, Cardiff
2010 DIY Exhibition, Surface Arts, Exeter
2010 Backlit Open, Nottingham
2010 The Tomorrow People, The Elevator Gallery, London
2010 After the End, The Elysium Gallery, Swansea
2009 Like A God, A Good Luck Charm Or a Vice,
Bristol Diving School, Bristol – two person show
2009 Surface / Space / Time Crypt Gallery, London
2009 Wood, Canvas, Steel(?), tactileBOSCH, Cardiff
2009 Overview, Elysium Artspace, Swansea
2008 Traces, The Schwartz Gallery, London
2006 Herefordshire College of Art and Design
2005 The Art of Love, Oxo Tower, London
2004 Gallery International, Baltimore, USA
2004 Identity, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown
2003 Plinth, The Cube, Leeds
2002 / 2003 Land, Artsway, Hampshire
2001 The International Festival of Light, Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucestershire
2001 Twenty Years of Excellence, The Bemis Centre for Contemporary Arts, USA
2000 / 2001 Wales Drawing Biennale, Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, and Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth

RESIDENCIES

1999 Bemis Centre for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Eight week residency awarded by the Bemis Centre and the Arts Council for Wales

CATALOGUES

1999/2000 Wales Drawing Biennale
1997/1998 Wales Drawing Biennale
1996 Angels and Mechanics

ARTICLES

2011 Re-Title Newsletter Artist Focus Sculpture
www.re-title.com/public/newsletters/29_Jan_11_-_re-title.com_Artist_Focus_Sculpture_0.htm

2011 S Mark Gubb for Warp G39 web site
www.g39.org/warp/website.cgi?place=artists

2009 Chris Brown for Open Frequency on Axis
Chris Brown – Co-Director of G39 Gallery, Cardiff, and
Magazine Co-ordinator for AN Magazine

www.axisweb.org/ofSARF.aspx?SELECTIONID=19850

FINANCIAL AWARDS

The Bemis Centre for Contemporary Arts
The Elmley Foundation
The Arts Council for Wales
The North Weir Trust