Artist Statement
My moral obligation to stage moments of potent experience has to envelop frangibility and discount absoluteness. Through liquidity and the manipulation of personal and found photography, my paintings engage with the slippage of reminiscence. By dredging and mining various forms of imagery the paintings become evidence for something tangible yet inconsequential. I use nostalgia and remembrance as a tool to internalize the traditions of British painting, in order to comment on both personal and external cultural factors. Through this melancholic and poetic lens, the paintings seduce the viewer with convention but leave room for fragmentation and intervention, both physically and literally. The painting withstands weathering and condensing to only show the essential. The stripping down reduces the painting of flourish to bring a more direct sense of place. My pursuit for an inward representation of landscape is challenged by the painting’s facility to serve as reminders of distance. The paintings are informed by the effects of distance. Distance in terms of my relation to the subject. Distance in my physical relation to the painting in the studio, and the distance of recollection. However, my paintings capture the residue from experience and detachment, they are a platform that restages rupture.
EDUCATION
Rhode Island School of Design, MFA Painting 2019
Glasgow School of Art, BA (Hons) Painting and Printmaking 2016
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Vignettes and Pathways, group exhibition, curated by Sam Drake, Crownpoint Project Space, Glasgow, 2021
Awards Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy 2021. Edinburgh, UK
2019
RISD Graduate Painting Thesis Show, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY,
New Contemporaries, RISD Museum Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI
Crocodile Tears, Morgan Fine Arts Building, Brooklyn, NY, Curated by Kate Mothes (yngspc)
Grad Selections , Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
RISD Graduate Show, Providence, RI,
Fresh Faces, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Arusha Gallery at London Art Fair 2019 -Arusha Gallery
2018
Graduate Painting Biennial, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence
Expectations, Field Projects Gallery, New York, New York
Oli Epp Studio Residency, The Koppel Project, London
Velvet Ropes, GIFC Norway Tour by Galleri Golsa
LA Summer, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh
2017
The Royal Glasgow Institute of The Fine Arts New Graduate Prize, Kelly Gallery, Glasgow
Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh
WAC Rewind, Bishops Palace, Wells
RSA New Contemporaries, The Mound, Royal Scottish Academy
2016
Wells Art Contemporary, Bishops Palace, Wells
RSA Open Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy Galleries, Edinburgh
Best of Degree Show, Sixfoot Gallery, Pentagon Centre,
Glasgow Glasgow School of Art Degree Show, The Tontine Building, Glasgow
Painters Gonna Paint, The Tontine Building, Glasgow
Lynn Painter-Stainers , Mall Galleries
London Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries,
Rising Stars, Lloyds Register Gallery, London
W. Gordon Smith Award, Dovecot Gallery, Edinburgh
2014
Richard Ford Award, Travel Scholarship to Museo Del Prado, Madrid
AWARDS
The RSA William Littlejohn Award 2019
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Second Grant Award 2018
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant Award 2017
The Professor Baruch Kirschenbaum Term Scholarship 2017-2019
RISD Fellowship 2017-2019
Walter Scott Purchase Prize 2017
RSA New Contemporaries Selected Artist 2016
Wells Art Contemporary Award, (45 Park Lane Mayfair Prize) 2016
Royal Scottish Academy Keith Prize 2016
The Royal Glasgow Institute Glasgow School of Art Graduate Award
Richard Ford Award 2014
COLLECTIONS
Brown Arts Initiative Collection, Brown University, USA
Walter Scott Collection, Edinburgh
PUBLICATIONS
Brandeis University: Brandies Blacklist Journal Volume IV
Saatchi Art: Invest In Art 2017 Report: Emerging Artists to Buy Now
RSA New Contemporaries, 18th February-15th March 2017, The Royal Scottish Academy p 46
https://www.saatchiart.com/invest-in-art
http://www.theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2017/02/rsa-new-contemporaries/