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
Asylum Studios, Suffolk
Doctorate in Contemporary Fine Art Drawing Practice, Arts University Bournemouth
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
Current 2025
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize
Watching Film Watching at King Street Cinema
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
2023
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral The Art Station, Suffolk
Unconsumed The Shoe Factory, Norwich
2022
The Body We Are In Confer Karnac, London
Transformative Matter: Material Trace Drawing Research Group
Aldeburgh Literary Festival Ballroom Arts, Aldeburgh
2021
Art and Its Afterlives: Extraordinary Plumbago
2020
Art and its Afterlives: Drawing with Fugitive Materials
Art and Its Afterlives: Would You Trust a Stranger with your Artwork?
2019
Mechanical Human Matter TheGallery, Bournemouth
Film Clothes Asylum Gallery, Suffolk
This is not an Oak Tree Jugg Art Foundation
2018
Drawing Boundaries; Folding Islands British Pavilion, Venice Biennale for Architecture
The Nomenclature of Colour Annual Ipswich Biennial
Uncommon or Garden Jugg Art Foundation
2009-17
Vessels with Pestles and Chalices from Palaces The Minories, Colchester
Gloves The Emporium, Thorpeness
Our Friends in the East Flea, Ipswich
Suffolk Showcase Smiths Row, Bury St Edmunds
Bows Town Hall Gallery, Ipswich
Au + Ag TROVE, Birmingham
Soft Machines National Trust Bourne Mill, Colchester
Bridezilla St Mary at the Quay, Ipswich
Post CoExist, Southend on Sea
15 Artists, 15 Days Firstsite, Colchester
Publications, Conferences and Residences
Temporal Drawing Symposium: Staging Drawing, Drawing Research Network (2021)
Drowned Dress and Daddy in Florilegia (2021) by Annabel Pearl
Britten Pears Arts Residency, Aldburgh (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)