I am an artist, educator and practice-based doctoral researcher.
My research explores the coexistence of pictorial and sculptural qualities in relief as an analogy for cultural hybridity. The consideration of relief — traditionally regarded as a sub-category of sculpture — as a form of imprint prompts my investigation into the nature of flatness and depth, image and object, printing matrix (plate, screen, digital file) and substrate (paper, fabric, wall). Within this, I use the intangible qualities of lightness and shimmer as affectual ways of working with image and surface to explore notions of slippage and hybridity. This is developed through analogue, digital and performance strategies for print practice, including frottage, wall stencilling, photography and montage.
In August 2023, I participated in an International Doctoral School in Nida, Lithuania, which focused on facilitating dialogue between academics and PhD researchers from Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, and the UK.
In 2022, I co-edited a print publication titled Cha with Artist and fellow PhD researcher Remi Rana Allen, which was funded by CCW Mphil / PhD Initiative Fund. Cha explored the notion of Brownness as a diverse and inclusive mode of cultural identification. In the current polarising climate of populism which has fuelled nationalist agendas of ‘us and them’ – Cha uses the analogy of a tea break to offer a space for contemplating states of cultural in-betweenness.
I completed my MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in 2002, where I was awarded the Rootstein Hopkins Postgraduate Award. Since then, I have exhibited in London and throughout the UK.
Selected exhibitions and research activities:
AD magazine issue #44: On Being an Artist, Educator and Researcher. Sept 2025 Edited by Sophie Leach, with guest editor Dr Abbie Cairns
Details available at: https://www.nsead.org/publications/ad-magazine/ad-44/
Fashioning Frequencies - East Bank Gallery, London College of Fashion. May-Jul 2025.
Thread Count - The Art Station, Saxmundham, Suffolk. Jun-Aug 2024.
The Elasticity of Research through the Sensorial - Nida Doctoral School, Lithuania Aug 2023.
ChArt (co-curator) - Triangle Space – Chelsea College of Arts. March 2023.
Cha: what does brownness mean to you? Editors: Remi Rana-Allen and Srinivas Surti. October 2022.
Details available at: Iniva Library Catalogue
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral - The Art Station, Saxmundham, Suffolk. Dec 2022.
Discursivity - Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Arts. London, October 2021.
Here - The Art Station, Saxmundham, Suffolk, June/July 2021
Blender - The Cello Factory, London. Supported by The London Group. Jan 2020
Unboxed - Artstation Project, Saxmundham, Suffolk – May / June 2019.
The Collection - London Bronze Casting and Squire & Partners, London – May 2019.
Malevolent Eldritch Shrieking - Attercliffe, Sheffield 2018.
Annual Ipswich Biennale - Atlas House, Ipswich 2018.
30• Celsius - ASC Gallery, London 2016.
Transitional Landscapes - The Centre for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, USA 2016.
NO-ONE LIVES IN THE REAL WORLD - Standpoint Gallery, London 2015.
BRUTE - ARTHOUSE1, London 2015.
Cracks on Modern Transparencies - ASC Window Space Projects, London 2014-15.
Bounding Line - Solo exhibition at Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London 2014.
The Distance Between - Bond House Gallery, London 2014.
The Zeitgeist Open 2013 - Bond House Gallery, London 2013.
The London Group Centenary Show - Cello Factory, London 2013.
Exeter Contemporary Open - Exeter Phoenix 2011.
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2010 - Jerwood Space, London and touring to Summerfield Gallery, Cheltenham; South Hill Park, Bracknell; Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Carmaarthen; DLI Museum.
Current part-time teaching
Lecturer in Printmaking at University of Suffolk on BA Fine Art and BA Graphic Design courses. Since 2019.
Tutor MA Fine Art (online) at Falmouth University. Since 2021.
Lecturer at Norwich University of the Arts. Since 2023.
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