MY PRACTICE
I select and collect different kinds of ephemera as a starting point in the process of making work. My intention is to give these images a second existence as an inspirational and integral part of a new image.

Original cinema quad posters at 30” by 40” are placed within a larger canvas and inhabit this new space alone, or, co-exist with other multiple (unrelated) film posters, providing the restrictive parameters of their identity(s), which I must both overcome and utilise (I never start with a blank canvas).

The surface is worked and re-worked in a range of media and technique. Much of the poster(s) become undetectable, usurped by that process. Human elements survive but are disfigured and distorted, distressed and obscured; disguised behind a unique mask. Letters selected from the original title, become a new title.

Although I am clearly guilty of iconoclasm, I do not consider myself an iconoclast; (creating maniacal imagery redolent of cultural vandalism) and I am in no way apposed to image worship. The intention is to produce works that subsume redundant images in that they have out-lived their purpose.

EXHIBITIONS
2008 ‘Spike Open’ Spike Island
2007 Modern British Artists
2007 ‘Spike Open’ Spike Island
2005 ‘Spike Open’ Spike Island
2004’ ‘Open Studio’ Jamaica St. Studios
2003 ‘Retox’ Festival of Contemporary Art, Centre Space
2003 ‘Heart of Suburbia’ Kangaroo Court
2003 ‘Filth’ La Rocca
2002 ‘FIVE: Skin-Inside/Outside’ Launch
2002 ‘Open Studio x2’ Jamaica St. Studios
2002 Square Gallery

PUBLICATIONS
2007 UK JACK
2003 ‘Venue’
2002 Skin-Inside/Outside BOUDICCA:FIVE

EDUCATION
1999 BA Hons Illustration
University of the West of England

1997 HND Illustration
Hereford College of Art and Design

1995 BTEC National Diploma General Art and Design
York College of Further and Higher Education