About
For the last two years, my practice has involved a continual exploration into the ways of depicting the weight of the human body. In particular, how the subtle alteration of pose and position can manipulate and displace parts of our muscle and flesh. Focusing on parts of the body that display this pressure or movement of mass has resulted in a series of fragmented figures.
These fragments record an action, a physical modification that is accentuated by the figure’s incomplete form. Isolating these elements draws attention to the way living flesh reacts when interacting with a solid object. The body’s form is forced to give, and it is this activity and surface tension that I wish to exhibit in my work.
Education
MA Fine Art, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh
Exhibitions
Wretched Light Industry, Serving The People, New York, 2021
EXH 04, Floorr Magazine, 2020
Maggies x ArtThou No Borders Initiative, ArtThou, Scotland, 2020
Freewall Space, London, 2020
New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture 2020
John, Edinburgh College of Art 2019
54321, Edinburgh College of Art 2019
Astaire Art Prize, Fire Station, Lauriston Place 2018
Cured Meat, Fire Station, Lauriston Place 2018
Running Up That Hill, St Margaret’s House, Edinburgh 2017
Wondering People, Summerhall, Edinburgh 2017
Guns On The Run, Edinburgh College of Art 2016
Drawing Seagulls Into Orbit, Edinburgh College of Art 2016
Guns On The Run, Edinburgh College of Art 2015
Art Tasting, Space Club, Edinburgh 2015
Washed Up, Minto House, Edinburgh 2015
Fresh Meat, Edinburgh College of Art 2014
Awards
RSA Friends Prize at RSA New Contemporaries Exhibition 2020
Work published in the Aesthetica Art Prize anthology: Future Now 2020.
Selected Artist, RSA New Contemporaries Exhibition 2020
RSA John Kinross Scholarship 2019
Runner Up, Astaire Prize 2018
Shortlisted, Passion for Freedom, London Festival 2014