Bio
I am a London based artist, specialising in printmaking and bronze, and a Print Fellow at City and Guilds of London Art School. I have recently graduated from a Masters in Fine Art at City and Guilds of London Art School, where I pursued a practice exploring the temporality of built structures, bridging art and archaeology through visual and material creations. Prior to starting this degree, I achieved a first-class honours degree in BA Fine Art from Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. During my undergraduate studies I worked as a student ambassador for the National Saturday Club, in which I assisted a group of young artists between the ages of 13-16 work towards and achieve a Bronze Arts Award.
I am a member of the Boiling Point Artist Collective, consisting of recent graduates of BA Fine Art from Winchester School of Art. In April, Boiling Point put on their second exhibition, which was awarded an Arts Council England projects grant, showcasing contemporary art practices including a range of public engagement activities at Openhand Openspace in Reading.
Artist Statment
I am an artist whose practice focuses on printmaking. I use acid etching to capture eroded buildings of the past. My etchings are conceptually connected to ruins due to the degradation the zinc plate goes through when submerged in acid, mirroring the weathering of man-made sites and structures. I investigate traditional processes alongside contemporary experimentations, aiming to push the boundaries of representation and develop techniques to replicate the textures of aging surfaces.
Working with detailed, free hand line work I depict the exposed rugged surfaces that I am confronted with when entering the site. The process of printmaking is much like the building of a structure, working through a step-by-step method to arrive at a finished piece. The journey and destruction of the metal plate is integral to my representation of these dilapidated buildings as I am creating a ruin from a ruin.
I often compare methods within printmaking in tandem with newer technologies, such as scanning and 3D print, transitioning degrading structures into synthetic reproductions.
CV
Education
2022-23 MA Fine Art at City and Guilds of London Art School
2019-22 First Class Honours Degree BA Fine Art at Winchester School of Art
Group Exhibitions
2024 Unknown Terriroty, SET Lewisham, London
2023 Clifford Chance Postgraduate Printmaking in London 2023: A Survey of London Art Colleges, Canary Wharf, London
2023 City and Guilds of London Art School MA Degree show, London
2023 Fresh #2: Boiling Point, Openhand Openspace, 571 Oxford Road Gallery, Reading
2022 Annual Open Exhibition 2022, Southwark Park Galleries, London
2022 Ripe Plums #2, Alfred Arcade, Southampton
2022 Boiling Point, Yellow Edge Gallery, Portsmouth
2022 Winchester School of Art Degree Show 2022, Winchester School of Art, Winchester
2021 Fine Art Salon, Winchester School of Art Studios, Winchester
2019 Derek Hill Transcription Project, Winchester Gallery, Winchester
Current Work
2023-Now Printmaking Fellow, City and Guilds of London Art School, London
Previous Work
2024 National Saturday Club tutor, City and Guilds of London Art School
2023 Assistant Etching Tutor for The Creative Dimension Trust
2023 Artist Consultant for Cultrual Associates Oxford
2023 Public Print Workshop leader, Openhand Openspace, 571 Oxford Road Gallery, Reading [April]
2021-22 National Saturday Club student ambassador, Winchester School of Art [October-June]
Awards
2023 Shortlisted for Clifford Chance Postgraduate Printmaking in London 2023: A Survey of London Art Colleges
2023 Outstanding Work in Print awarded by City and Guilds of London Art School
2022 Bateson Mason Award for Drawing