My drawing practice is an explorative one, which moves between multiple iterations as a way of expanding its subject matter. The drawings take on diverse forms, employ a wide range of materials and techniques and shift between digital and analogue media. They are produced at various scales; from the vastness of a church to a single piece of confetti. Some drawings convey the experience of apprehending subjects that cannot be clearly seen or physically touched, such as archived museum objects and excerpts from films, whereas others use more traditional skills of acute first-hand observation, measuring and rendering.
Born in North Yorkshire, lives and works in Suffolk UK
PhD in Contemporary Fine Art Drawing Practice, Arts University Bournemouth (2025)
PGCE Post-Compulsory Education in Art, University of Suffolk
MA Fine Art, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting, Wimbledon School of Art
Solo Presentations
Watching Film Watching King Street Cinema, Ipswich
Film Clothes Asylum Gallery, Suffolk
The Nomenclature of Colour Annual Ipswich Biennial
Soft Machines National Trust Bourne Mill, Colchester
Bridezilla St Mary at the Quay, Ipswich
15 Artists, 15 Days Firstsite, Colchester
Upcoming
Refired Messums East, Lowestoft
2026
In Proximity Norwich Castle, 14 February-15 June
Remnants The Campbell Gallery, The Bank Arts Centre, Eye, 29 April-30 May
Thrift Asylum Studios, 11-18 April
At the Juncture Asylum Studios, 25-29 March
2025
Firstsite Collectors' Group Bursary recipient
2024
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, London
Transformative Matter: Material Trace Belsyre Garage, Oxford
Unconsumed II The Shoe Factory, Norwich
Selected Group Shows 2023-2009
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral The Art Station, Suffolk
Unconsumed The Shoe Factory, Norwich
The Body We Are In Confer Karnac, London
Transformative Matter: Material Trace Drawing Research Group
Art and Its Afterlives: Extraordinary Plumbago
For Suffolk Sake The Art Station, Suffolk
The Waiting Place The Art Station, Suffolk
Art and its Afterlives: Drawing with Fugitive Materials
Art and its Afterlives: Would You Trust a Stranger with your Artwork?
Mechanical Human Matter TheGallery, Arts University Bournemouth
This is not an Oak Tree Jugg Art Foundation
Drawing Boundaries; Folding Islands British Pavilion, Venice Biennale for Architecture
Uncommon or Garden Jugg Art Foundation
Vessels with Pestles and Chalices from Palaces The Minories, Colchester
Our Friends in the East Flea, Ipswich
Suffolk Showcase Smiths Row, Bury St Edmunds
Au + Ag TROVE, Birmingham
Post CoExist, Southend on Sea
Publications, Conferences and Residences
Viarco Pencil Factory S. João de Madeira, Portugal (2026)
Extraordinary Plumbago Art and Its Afterlives, Arts University Bournemouth (2021)
Temporal Drawing Symposium: Staging Drawing Drawing Research Network (2021)
Drowned Dress and Daddy in Florilegia (2021) by Annabel Pearl
Britten Pears Arts Residency, Red House, Aldeburgh (2020)
Immaterial Brighton Postgraduate Design History Symposium (2019)
Last Fancy Dress in Dresses Arty 40 (s/s 2018)
Knickers in Dress Ube-zine 5 (2017)
Melbourne Black Sticky Institute Melbourne (2011)
Memberships
Asylum Studios, Suffolk
Arts University Bournemouth Research Group Transformative Matter: Material Trace
Classes
I run regular classes, in person and online, in life drawing, watercolour and illustration