Selected Group Exhibitions
'Oestrogel Diary' 2023 Collage, tissue and gold ink on canvas, overall size 82h x 61w cm (each panel 20 x 20 cm)
Exhibited in Stryx Studio Holders Show, Birmingham 2023
OestroGel is a hormonal medicine that has been in short supply in the UK recently, which has impacted hundreds of thousands of women who need supplemental oestrogen for a variety of reasons. It has reached almost mythic, precious status, and I use the empty bottles and the patient instruction leaflets as source material and treasures in themselves.
Exhibited in Stryx Studio Holders Show, Birmingham 2023
OestroGel is a hormonal medicine that has been in short supply in the UK recently, which has impacted hundreds of thousands of women who need supplemental oestrogen for a variety of reasons. It has reached almost mythic, precious status, and I use the empty bottles and the patient instruction leaflets as source material and treasures in themselves.
'Half Life (Five by Five)' (polyptych) 2022 Collage, tissue, gold ink on cotton duck on reclaimed stretchers 100cm h x 130cm w
Parts 1&2 exhibited at Eastside Projects Summer Camp, Birmingham 2022; Parts 1&2 and 3 (above) exhibited in Ort Gallery Members Show 2022
In 2022 I developed a notation system to represent the half-lives of all the medications I have to take for my various invisible medical conditions and disabilities, and layered this data over collaged patient information leaflets. I was hoping to find a point at which everything was in perfect balance, but that's not how the body works.
Parts 1&2 exhibited at Eastside Projects Summer Camp, Birmingham 2022; Parts 1&2 and 3 (above) exhibited in Ort Gallery Members Show 2022
In 2022 I developed a notation system to represent the half-lives of all the medications I have to take for my various invisible medical conditions and disabilities, and layered this data over collaged patient information leaflets. I was hoping to find a point at which everything was in perfect balance, but that's not how the body works.
'Keppra Diaries II' 2021 Collage, tissue and gold ink on canvas, overall size 82h x 61w cm (each panel 20 x 20 cm)
Exhibited in West Midlands Open 2022, New Art Gallery Walsall
I made ‘Keppra Diaries II’ in 2021 as part of coming to terms with my late diagnosis of epilepsy after a major seizure in 2018. I covered the individual canvases with patient information leaflets for the medication I now take to control my seizures, and wrote extracts from my journal notes over those. Everything is partly hidden by the layers of blue tissue. The torn edges are held together by lines of gold ink. I wanted to make something soothing and beautiful from something confusing and frightening.
Exhibited in West Midlands Open 2022, New Art Gallery Walsall
I made ‘Keppra Diaries II’ in 2021 as part of coming to terms with my late diagnosis of epilepsy after a major seizure in 2018. I covered the individual canvases with patient information leaflets for the medication I now take to control my seizures, and wrote extracts from my journal notes over those. Everything is partly hidden by the layers of blue tissue. The torn edges are held together by lines of gold ink. I wanted to make something soothing and beautiful from something confusing and frightening.
'Drowned World (London +4°C)' 2019 Collage, predicted sea-level data from Climate Central, tissue and gold ink on reclaimed stretcher and repurposed cotton toile 76 x 60.5 cm (4cm deep)
Exhibited in Confluence, London 2019; Depictions of Living, London 2020; Ikon for Artists, Birmingham 2021
This work was made for 'Confluence' a group show of artists working on environmental themes, invited and curated by Justine Johnson at Safehouse in London. The collage features pages from the London A-Z and projected sea level data from Climate Central to show how the areas of London I lived and worked in would be affected by a rise in global temperature of 4°C. The Safehouse would be safe, but my studio in Tottenham would be drowned. Remember, there is no Planet B!
Exhibited in Confluence, London 2019; Depictions of Living, London 2020; Ikon for Artists, Birmingham 2021
This work was made for 'Confluence' a group show of artists working on environmental themes, invited and curated by Justine Johnson at Safehouse in London. The collage features pages from the London A-Z and projected sea level data from Climate Central to show how the areas of London I lived and worked in would be affected by a rise in global temperature of 4°C. The Safehouse would be safe, but my studio in Tottenham would be drowned. Remember, there is no Planet B!