Play is Important
My multidisciplinary art practice is a playful exploration of architecture’s possibilities and limitations. I am drawn to the simple geometry of Modernist structures' and the visual connections it has to childhood building blocks; by rejecting the ornate and decorative it allows for more creative freedom to design imagined cityscapes and the architecture that may be housed there.
I am interested in the notion of play and how this exercise gets disregarded, as adult lives get busier. I want the work I produce to promote playful curiosity and for the audience to become more aware of their surroundings and the people they share the space with.
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Education
2015 - 2016, PGCE + QTS - University of Buckingham
2011-2014, BA (Hons) Fine Art - Norwich University of the Arts
2010 -2011, Foundation Year - University of Falmouth
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Selected Exhibitions and Projects
2023
Ways of Working, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich
Sound Mirrorrs, Collusion, Kings Lynn
Material Process, Cromer Artspace, Cromer
2022
Portholes, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
2019
Borderlines, Cley 19, Cley
2018
Corners, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich
2017
The Clunker, The Playhouse, Norwich
Pavilion of the Senses, Norwich Market, Norwich
Some Artists working Sculpturally, Black Barn, Swaffham
Colour | Shape | Form, The Playhouse, Norwich
2016
Lemon, Anteros Arts Foundation, Norwich
Live Art, Marketplace, Wymondham
2015
Move It, 13A, Norwich
Play is the real engine of Learning, Chapel Crypt, Norwich
Group Show, Freight Gallery, Norwich
2014
In Loving Memory, Stew Gallery, Norwich
Fourteen, Fabric Warehouse, Norwich
White Wooden Blocks, Firstsite, Colchester
2013
NUA, Firstsite, Colchester
No Working Title, Tate Modern, London
Here | There | Everywhere, Cambridge Art Salon, Cambridge
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Residencies
2016 Barbershop, Dyad Creative, Norwich
2014 - 2016 Artist in Residence, Norwich School.
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Artist Educator
Current Associate Artist, Sainsbury Centre for the Arts
2016 - 2018, Artist Educator, Anteros Arts Foundation