Solo Exhibition August 24-25 2024
“During the last few years, I have produced a large series of work based on walks through the stunning Philips Park, Drinkwater and Prestwich Clough, comprising of sketches, watercolours and huge multi-media hangings. My work centres on man’s effect on nature, and nature’s effect on man, as the two slice into each other.”
2023: Photographic Portraits of Bury New Road, Institute, Prestwich
2018: That Dark Space Behind My Eyes, Air Gallery, Altrincham
Journeys – Lost & Found, Loft Space, OA Studios, Salford
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024:
Neo Open Exhibition, Rogue Gallery, Manchester Various venues, Bury Arts Festival
Chimera La Cour des Arts, Tulle France 2022:
60 Drawings +Ten, Whitaker Rossendale Museum and Art Gallery 2021:
New Shift Castlefield Gallery New Art Spaces, Wigan 2020:
Europia Collaboration Castlefield Associates Manchester
Flourish Excellence in Printmaking, Woodend Gallery, Scarborough 2019:
Disregard Vernon Park Art Gallery, Stockport 2018:
Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks Art Festival Intoline, The Old Courts, Wigan
Nasty Women, Constellations, Liverpool
Fe/Male, AIR Gallery, Altrincham
Diptych Triptych Polytych, PS Mirabel, Manchester 2017:
Corduroy, Stockholm 2016:
To Walk In Beauty, Manchester Cathedral
Expanded Field of Drawing, Slade School of Art, London
Society of Women Artists, The Mall Galleries, London Papergirl, The Bureau Centre for the Arts, Blackburn 20:20 Print, touring UK
GM Arts Prize, Manchester Chamber of Commerce 2015: Dreux Miniprint Biennale, Paris
2018: The Loft Space, OA Studios, Manchester Cel del Nord, Orista, Spain
Director neo:artists Studios, Bolton
Expanded Field of Drawing, Slade School of Art, UCL, London
BA Honours Degree Fine Art/Sculpture Chelsea School of Art, London
Royal Academy, Anatomy London
‘My art deals with the juxtaposition of man and nature…I wander alone around former industrial places that nature has attempted to recapture and natural environments that man has attempted to seize, drawing photographing and sketching. I splice then together, creating new layered images on fabric and paper…’
M62 Cars 1
Watercolour and silkscreen
M62 Cars 2
Watercolour and silkscreen
‘I try to capture the essence of things, the ding an sich…’
“Recently I have started to create these larger scale images…an emotional, intuitive response to nature and man’s impact on the world…My influences are Bruce McLean, Emil Nolde, Robert Rauschenburg and traditional theatre sets…”
‘…experimental multi-media images with the volume tuned up to the unreal...dreams of beauty and decay via drawings, video, installation, silkscreen, cyanotype and photography…’
‘…A view of our world….cutting through. Slashing. Capturing the natural and unnatural…an emotional response to living in this strange world It’s all about the journey Man’s effect on our planet. Sometimes damaging, sometimes beautiful. Constantly moving, fleeting images. From pond life to sky scrapes. Energy lines, real and unreal. Shifting…’
Essence of Tree 2024
Watercolour and charcoal
Rubbish Tree Drinkwater Park 2024
Charcoal on paper
The Human Nature exhibition and workshops have been made possible with funding from The National Lottery Community Fund, which distributes money raised by National Lottery players for good causes, the Parklife Community Fund, and a partnership with Incredible Edible Prestwich and District.
With thanks to Mark Lockwood and all the volunteers from Incredible Edible and Friends of Philips Park, Sarah-Jane Tarn from Lancashire Wildlife Trust, The Barn CIC, Luke Saxon for the curation, everyone who attended the workshops and contributed to housing the exhibition, and the late Robert Trueblood, always in our thoughts.
Human Nature is a spin-off from the Bury New Road heritage project from the Mary Burns Community Group with Stephen Kingston. For more info see www.burynewroad.org burynewrd@gmail.com
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