My practice is based on reproduction, reconfiguration and souvenirs. The reproductions I create focus on entwining existing works and objects with aspects of life in modern day society. My practice questions taste and how it is formed socially through high and low culture as well as through popular and unpopular routes of viewing.

This approach has focused my interests towards hierarchical and fantastical subjects of monarchy and noble folk, dwarfism, bearded ladies, the obese, the anorexic and the deformed. I have also involved mechanical elements to my work with rotating appendages, girls with things to show up their skirts and other socially sensitive prohibitions.

My practice has a tendency to be figurative within its subject of reworking old works, suggesting a darker side to the seductiveness of beauty whilst disrupting the real.


Education:

1986 - 89 BA Fine Art Textiles Goldsmiths College, London

Exhibitions:

May 09 Flash Company, Cecil Sharp House, London
Mar 09 Resolve, Frame workshop, Ipswich
Jan 09 Heres looking at you, Town Hall Galleries, Ipswich
Jan 08 SALE, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
Dec 08 Kunstwerk Bazaar, Outpost Gallery, Norwich
Nov 08 Future50, PSL, Leeds
Aug 08 Surface Gallery, Nottingham
Jul 08 These Living Walls of Jet, Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool
Jun 08 Suffolk Showcase, Bury St Edmunds Gallery, Suffolk
May 08 Members Show, Key Arts, Suffolk
Dec 07 I came, I saw, Town Hall Galleries, Ipswich
Oct 07 Autumn Exhibition, Corn Hall, Diss
Aug 07 Eyestorm Open, Eyestorm Gallery,Ipswich
Aug 07 Pin Mill Gallery,Chelmondiston, Suffolk
Jun 07 Suffolk Showcase, Bury St Edmunds Gallery, Suffolk
Jun 07 The Factory, Norwich Fringe , Norfolk
Jun 08 Triptych, Key Arts, Ipswich, Suffolk
Jan 07 Forefront Gallery, Ipswich, Suffolk
Dec 06 Town Hall Gallery, Ipswich, Suffolk
Oct 06 The Factory, Norwich Fringe, Norfolk
Jul 06 Suffolk Showcase, Bury St Edmunds Gallery, Suffolk
Mar 06 Forefront Gallery, Ipswich, Suffolk
Mar 06 Another Product, Cornerhouse, Manchester

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