In addition to collaborative projects, I maintain my own art practice in order to  research, play and make change. My art is often temporary, situation-specific and dialogue-based. Click on a page to see more...

  

Education...

PGCert Innovation in Practice (Distinction) / Goldsmiths, University of London

BA (Hons) Fine Art (and Contemporary Critical Studies) (2:1) / Goldsmiths, University of London

ND BTEC Crafts (Triple Distinction) / Wiltshire College Trowbridge, Wiltshire

 

Bibliography...

Context is half the work

Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution

Something must first resemble what we expect it to look like before we take notice

The role of artworks is no longer to form imaginary and utopian ideals, but to actually be ways of living and models of action within the existing real

 

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behaviour. Complex rules and regulations give rise to stupid and simple behaviour

If the audience…was given the tools and the possibility of intervening to express creatively their own order, their own certainty, arrived at personally...this actual personal creative experience would be more meaningful to people than their innate position as passive witnesses to referential experience in the traditional audience role

Code violation is a phrase used by referees at tennis matches. It is also a phrase applicable to art on the street. The players agree to a code. The artist may well transgress the code in order to make it more visible. Context may well be tacitly agreed when considering the function of a given place or situation. However, such tacit agreements tend to deny the need to move the code on or expose the code for what it is. Both are functions of art on the street