I combine sculpture, printed image, and text in an attempt to resuscitate the ache and poignancy of ordinary moments felt firsthand inside the studio or out in the world. I'm particularly interested in the relationship we have with the objects around us - the way we grow attached to them, the way we wrestle with them, and the vulnerabilities that are revealed in the process.
I like to use a variety of processes to transfigure and translate things once felt into a new experience for the audience. I'm drawn to materials that act as stand-ins for the heft and pliancy of flesh and the ballast of body weight, so the body is felt rather than seen. In the end, what results is a family of objects that feel improvisational and playful in their construction, made with a light, yet deliberate, hand.
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Lives and works in New York City
EDUCATION
2017-2019 MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London
2003-2007 BA Literature, Boston University
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 Residency Open Studios, School of Visual Arts
2022 Hot Box, SVA Flatiron Project Space
2021 After Image, Maake Magazine, curated by Alex Paik, online
2019 Missed Connections, Skybridge Gallery, The New School, New York
2019 Quivering Horizons, curated by Stewart Hardie, Berwick-Upon-Tweed, UK
2019 The Odd Witness Launch (with Katarina Sylvan), St. Dunstan-in-the-East, London
2019 Tall Tales of the Kitchen Kelpies' Soup, RAW Labs, London
2019 Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London
2019 We can only have fun on certain days, The Warbling Collective, Stour Space, London
2019 so sweet and so cold, Hockney Gallery, London [solo]
2019 Look at the Mess You’ve Made (with Cat Robertson), Hockney Gallery, London
2019 Zoo, Hockney Gallery, London
2018 Sleep and the Unconscious, 7 Wigmore Street, London
2018 Supercult, Hockney Gallery, London
2018 GOP, Courtyard Gallery, London
2018 WIP Show, The Royal College of Art, London
2017 Double Pelican, Dyson Gallery, London
2016 Slade Foundation Show, Slade School of Fine Art
TEACHING AND TALKS
2020 Magic Monday - LMCC Governors Island Residency
2019 Zabludowicz Collection - Workshop Leader
2018 UCA Farnham - Visiting Lecturer
2018 Hambidge Center - Artist Talk
AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
2022 NARS Studio Relief Residency
2022 SVA Fine Arts Contemporary Practices Residency
2020 LMCC Arts Center COVID-19 Residency, Governors Island
2018 Gilbert Bayes Award for Sculpture
2018 Distinction for Dissertation, TONIC, Royal College of Art
2018 Hambidge Center Creative Fellow
2018 Villiers David Travel Award
2016 Create Residency, led by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
2004-2007 Marion H. West Scholarship
PUBLICATIONS
2022 ‘Wide Water’ in “Sink or Float: An Artificial Island”, edited by Jessica Wetherly
2019 The Odd Witness (with Katarina Sylvan), Edition of 30
2019 “Knot”, Artandcrap Essay Series
2018 Conversation with Lenka Clayton, The Pluralist, Issue 6
2018 Conversation with Cathy Marston, The Pluralist, Issue 5
2018 Conversation with Olivia Bax, The Pluralist, Issue 4
2018 Conversation with Lavinia Greenlaw, The Pluralist, Issue 3