I'm an artist based in London, UK. This website primarily focuses on the drawings I've been making over the past ten or so years. Whatever the subject, there's always a wider theme at the back of my mind: how do I, as someone compelled to make images with my hands, deal with the status and prevalence of the modern digital image - pixelated, ghostly, disposable etc?

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EDUCATION
1990-1Foundation in Art and Design, Bournville College of Art, Birmingham
1991-5MA Hons History of Art, University of Edinburgh
1999-00Graduate Certificate in Web Design and Management, Lighthouse Media Centre, Brighton
2005Graduate Certificate in Visual Communication, London College of Communication
2010-12MA Fine Art (Printmaking), Royal College of Art, London

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (*solo)
2022Backstreet Reunion, Bishopsgate Institute, London*
Tom of Finland Festival (showing with Ridley Road Project Space), London
2021Roses, Alex Macarthur, Rye
2020Queer Art(ists) Now, Archive Gallery, London
2019Flip Horizontal, ASC Studios, London*
Arrows of Desire, The Horse Hospital, London
2018Smoke and Stroke, The Backstreet, London*
Open studio, ASC Studios, London*
2017I know but I don't know, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham
Fuck Yeah, The Backstreet, London*
2015Top to bottom, Karen Lodges here, Forty Hall, Enfield*
2014Silent but, St John on Bethnal Green, London
All the lovers (performance), Duckie, London
2013Je, tu, il, elle (performance), Palais de Tokyo, Paris
The Illustrator's Art, Rochester Art Gallery, Rochester
Creekside Open (selected by Paul Noble), APT, London
Metamorphosis, Alex Macarthur, Brighton
2012The Show House, Lever Street, London
Multiplied, Christie's, London
Seven London Graduates, Patrick Heide, London
The Second Exhibition, CGP Projects, London
2011Verklärte Nacht (with the Arensky Chamber Orchestra), Cadogan Hall, London
Protected Characteristics, Royal College of Art, London
2009Girls' School, Denmark Terrace, Brighton
2007Girls' School, Denmark Terrace, Brighton
2006Like, Miscelanea, Barcelona*
20037th International Film Festival, Split, Croatia

RESIDENCIES/EXCHANGES
2011Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany
2004ArtSway, New Forest, Hampshire

AWARDS
2022Palanca Fantasy Award, Tom of Finland Foundation
2012New Graduate Award, London Print Studio
2011Natural Forms Drawing Prize, RCA, London

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