The act of representing something is philosophically rich, problematic even, but it is the mutability of representation possible in art that I am driven by. For me, figuration is alive. The metamorphoses taking place in the course of painting seem to mimic the biological processes that underpin my subject matter: evolution, reproduction, and self-repair. Organic forms regularly appear but are inaccurate, misremembered, or reimagined. By skewing recognisability and skirting definition, one can access a kind of non-verbal intelligibility that is painting-specific. I wish to challenge the categorical impulse of language, but not through reduction. This is not a journey into abstraction, but a journey out of categorisation, and thus possibly out of learned hierarchies. My recent series of work looks at the subversive capacities of decoration and frivolity, and more generally, is an inquiry into the nature of love and care. I’m interested in what happens at the boundary between two people, two entities, or two paintings – in the electric charge of the dividing line.
Education:
MA Painting (Hons.), Royal College of Art, London, 2020-2022
BA Painting (Hons.), Camberwell College of Arts, UAL, 2019
Semester abroad at Emily Carr University, Vancouver
Pre-College Program at The Rhode Island School of Design
Awards:
Artlyst ‘Ones to Watch’ 2023
Shortlisted for ‘Now Introducing’ Prize 2022
The Ali H. Alkazzi Scholarship 2020-2022
The Vanguard Prize 2019
Selected shows:
2023 Tomorrow is Tomorrow is Tomorrow, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London
Sweet Spot, Blank Gallery, Shanghai
2022
Now Introducing 2022, Studio West Gallery, London
Good Oblivion, The Function Suite, London
A Feast for the Eyes, Start Art Fair, Seoul
Anywhere in Between, The Tub Hackney, London
What is Becoming Us, Rupturexibit, London
RCA 2022 Degree Show, London
Summer Fling, L.U.P.O. Gallery, Milan
Too Much Fruit on the Cake, Take Courage Gallery, London
2021
UNreal, Art CC, London
RCA WIP Show, (Online)
Life on Venus, The Tub Hackney, London
2020
Verified Amateurs, hARTslane, London
2019
Camberwell College of Arts Degree Show, London
Cell Block Tango, Deptford Police Cells, London
P2, Copeland Gallery, London
P.O.V., The Flying Dutchman, London