Portrait

Change is a process not an event, there is a continual flow and movement around us and in us, a constant conversion of what is happening now into the past. These works are made in that space, their appearance is created by it and the way they communicate relies upon it. They are not made with a system or fixed process but through an energy that I build, organic and unscripted. Each painting or sculpture or space follows its own path until there is a balance between presence and absence; where there are silences and hiding places that are both poetic and activating.
I am interested in things that communicate slowly and how I can slow down the viewers perception, to create forms that don’t reveal themselves fully, all at once, that have complexity and hooks and clues. The act of practice is for me, a filling up and emptying of space and surface; traces and echoes exist in a palimpsest, a build-up of painted marks, layers and statements that conceal and reveal, where time becomes held in a concrete way and the painting achieves a physical weight and substance. These layers allow you to swim in and out of the painting, they lead back in time.

Often below the word that is spoken is the thing known and unspoken and it is this territory I find interesting to explore. To try and find that language in painting or material where underneath what is said, another thing is being said or suggested.

Text by Sam Lock

Vita

Lives and works near Brighton, UK.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 “All thoughts are equal”, Cardogan Gallery, London, UK
2023 “the memory of what comes next” Anima Mundi Gallery ,St Ives, UK
2023 “Carta” Cardogan Gallery, Milan,IT
2022 “Obscura Gallery at Home, Wales, UK
2022 “Not the time of clocks” Cadogan Gallery, London, UK
2022 “Kinetic” Solo show LONDON ART FAIR, Lemon Street Gallery,UK
2021 “The world we live in“ Lemon Street Gallery, Truro
2021 “The fragment and the infinite“ Curated M. Abramenko, Cadogan Gallery, Milan
2021 “Moment“ Gallery at Home, Wales, UK
2021 “Tempo 33“ Installation, Cadogan Contemporary, Hampshire
2021 “Tempo“ Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK
2021 “Tempo“ ArtMart, Shanghai, CH
2020 “The table“ HAY ON WYE,UK
2020 “Presence of absence“ Lemon Street Gallery, Cornwall, UK London Art Fair, Lemon Street Gallery, Cornwall, UK
2019 “Now/Here” Cadogan Contemporary London, UK Kunst Rai Amsterdam, “Aspect” Twelve Twelve Gallery, Den Haag, NL “In situ”&Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2018 “Unremembered” Twelve Twelve Gallery, Den Haag, NL Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK
2017 “Presence” Twelve Twelve Gallery, Den Haag, NL Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK “Liminal Space” Twelve Twelve Gallery, Den Haag, NL Wimbledon Fine Art, London, UK
2013 “Trace Element” Studio 226 Chelsea Design Centre, London, UK

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 “A SKIN MADE POROUS” ANIMA MUNDI GALLERY, St Ives UK
2024 “SUMMA” ANIMA MUNDI GALLERY, St Ives UK
2022 “People you love” MTArt Agency, Union Bancaire Priva, Monaco
2018 “Juxtaposition” Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, DE
2017 Art the Hague, Twelve Twelve Gallery, Den Haag, NL
2016 “Art at Home” Jenna Burlingham Fine Art, London, UK “Drawn” RWA Bristol, UK