My practice is mainly concerned with the abuse of power in society. I’m agnostic in terms of media and technique, partly because I think these choices can powerfully carry meaning, can be a hook; but also because I can’t imagine putting anything off limits. I love the process of figurative sculpture though so this forms a significant part of my approach. I want my art to be accessible and to foster debate, to be easily argued over. I’m fascinated by Jacques Rancière’s idea that the power of political art doesn’t lie in the tension between the art and its inherent politics but in the tension between it being simultaneously art and non-art: a hundred years after the idea that anything could be art, that art may be infected with non-art and become both more powerful and less valuable.
A graduate in Fine Art at Cambridge School of Art (2015), I live in Essex with my wife, the author Clare Mulley, our three daughters and a lurcher.
AWARDS:
RomArt Sculpture Prize 2017
Arte Laguna Prize 2016
Sustainability Art Prize 2015
COMMISSIONS / PUBLIC ART
- 2022
- Safe Haven –
The Kindertransport Memorial,
The Quay, Harwich, Essex
- 2019
- Eglantyne Jebb Memorial,
Royal Albert Hall/SCF HQ, London
- 2018
- The Children of Calais,
Saffron Walden, Essex
- 2017
- Krystyna Skarbek Memorial, Ognisko Polskie, London
- 2017
- Fleeting View,
E-luminate Cambridge
(collaboration with Susie Olczak)
- 2017
- The View from Here, E-luminate,
Cambridge Park School
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2020
- Ways of Protest –
Elysium Gallery, Swansea
(November – January 2021)
Inside In – Zoom
- 2019
- Miniscule – VAP, Venice
- 2018
- Ace Club – Candid Arts,
London (November)
Protocol – Q Park,
Cavendish Sq, London
Passion for Freedom 2018 –
Royal Opera House Gallery,
Pall Mall, London
- 2017
- ROMART 2017 –
The Biennial of Art & Culture,
Stadio di Domiziana, Rome
NOA Exhibition – Bargehouse,
Oxo Tower Wharf, London
ALCHEMIC BODY –
Jorge Jurado Gallery, Bogotà
- 2016
- GLOW – Eastbury Manor,
Barking & Dagenham
Not a Champagne Life –
Hundred Years Gallery, London E2
Final Exhibition,
Arte Laguna – Arsenale Venice
- 2015
- Art Language Location – Cambridge
Cambridge School of Art Degree Show 2015 – Cambridge
Sustainability Art Prize & Exhibition – Ruskin Gallery