An attempt to connect objects, made structures within site-specific spaces. Working intuitively as a liberating chance to explore materials and their potential, without the sometimes suffocating-weight of conceptual reasoning. Creating assemblages and structures which may use a mixture of wood, metal and the ephemeral. Culminating in interventions, working with what is given and suggesting alternative realities or improvements in space.  

I’m a British Artist from Stoke-on-Trent. I’ve taken part in varying public realm projects such as ‘Architecture Week’ and studied Fine Art at Staffordshire University as well as an MA in Urban Design at Birmingham City University. I have a passion for the act of making and creating sculptural forms and objects based on the environment they’re intended for. Exhibiting in varying places from disused factories, galleries to public spaces.

I also work as a graphic designer, spending the last fourteen years in varying design studios. Influenced by Olafur Eliasson, Richard Wilson, Richard Deacon and El Lizzitsky and intrigued by the architectural drawings of Zaha Hadid and Daniel Libeskind. 

AWARDS

  • 2022. Arts Open Overall prize winner - Guernsey

EDUCATION

  • 2007-08. Birmingham City University. MA Urban Design

  • 2002-05. Staffordshire University. BA (Hons) Fine Art - First Class Honours

  • 2001-02. Staffordshire University. Foundation Studies, Art & Design - Pass with Merit


EXHIBITIONS

  • 2022. Arts Open, George Crossan Gallery - Guernsey

  • 2022. ‘A Journey To The End’ Solo show - Greenhouse Gallery - Guernsey

  • 2021. Spring, ‘New Life’ Gate House Gallery - Guernsey

  • 2020. Arts Open, George Crossan Gallery - Guernsey

  • 2008. Shortcuts, ‘In Play’ Airspace Gallery - Stoke on Trent

  • 2008. ‘Uncommon Ground’ Harlech Biennale - Harlech

  • 2006. Arts Open, Leek Art College - Staffordshire Moorlands

  • 2005. Degree Show, Staffordshire University - Stoke on Trent


PROJECTS

  • 2019. Piano Project, - Guernsey Airport Terminal Building

  • 2008. Place, Space & Identity, ‘Shared Space’ - Stoke on Trent

  • 2007. ‘A Fuller Space’ Architecture Week - Stoke on Trent


WORKSHOPS

  • 2006. ‘Memories’ Imperial War Museum North - Manchester


PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA

  • 29th July 2022, BBC Radio Guernsey - Claire Cathcart, Interview about the exhibition ‘A Journey To The End’.