Net (2014) Live performance & video installation, Aesthetica Art Prize, York st Mary's, York.
Artist Statement
I make work about the things we almost see — in the moment before something disappears, shifts, or reveals itself to be something else entirely.
I work across animation, painting, inflatable sculpture and film installation. My paintings use the Troxler Effect, where areas of colour fade and dissolve the longer you fix your gaze, making perception itself the subject. I build large inflatable forms from ripstop nylon, painting directly onto the surface to create sculptures that occupy and transform spaces. I make hand-drawn and silhouette film animation, projected into immersive installation environments.
Visual perception — specifically what happens at the edges of seeing — runs through everything I make. My sources are personal history, archival discovery, dreams, hallucinations and science. I have a particular long-standing preoccupation with Charles Bonnet Syndrome, peripheral fading and the way the brain fills in what the eye can't reach.
I graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art in 2004 and a Masters in Fine Art with distinction in 2013. I am based at Bloc Studio's in Sheffield.
Current artwork on tour - Stonehenge: Periphery series no. 3
Current tour dates for Colour exhibition:
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter: 23 May 2026 – 6 September 2026.
Bristol Museum and Art Gallery: 26 October 2026 – 31 January 2027
