EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
2023
Unknown Species
Arch Window Gallery, Ryde, Isle of Wight.
April 5th - 30th, 2023.
The series on display ‘Unknown Species’ explores organic and otherworldly forms through clay, incorporating patterns and textures onto the clay's surface to lend to the curiosity and strangeness of the work. She likes having elements of uncomfortableness in her pieces, for example the chosen colours seeming quite bodily, fleshy and visceral. Then the organic tentacle-like spikes on the works seem like they are growing and trying to reach out to you, lending to the title ‘Unknown Species’ like they would belong to the same species and ecosystem if they were alive. The process undertaken for these larger sculptural works is an important factor, as it provides a meditative process to solely focus on each step as each piece is made through the method of Coiling. Which involves rolling out clay into a long thin sausage-like form, which is wound round like a spring. Making a vessel with coils is accomplished by placing them around the circumference layer by layer and gradually increasing the height, in the end the layers are blended together to bond the clay.
2023
Monkton Arts: Open Art Exhibition
Monkton Arts, Ryde, Isle of Wight.
March 20th - 30th, 2023.
The piece Unknown Species 01 was selected to be a part of Monkton Arts Open Art Exhibition, where up to 50 artists displayed work in the Acons Gallery.
2023
How to Make an Asteroid Workshop
Dark Skies Festival, Brighstone, Isle of Wight.
February 17th - 18th, 2023.
I was invited to lead ceramic workshops during the Dark Skies Festival, where people of all ages joined me in making hand held asteroids using air drying clay.
2022
Curios Exhibition
Art_House_Life, Isle of Wight.
July 22nd - 31st, 2022.
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Curios is an upcoming group exhibition featuring local, national, and international artists who together form a diverse mixed meda show. The title being inspired by the saying 'cabient of curiosites' as each artist's work fills this house turned gallery to the brim whilst surrounded by domestic settings.
2021
To Continue Exhibition
OXO Tower Wharf, London.
July 15th - 18th, 2021.
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To Continue was a group exhibition showcasing 50 emerging artists from Bath Spa University, displaying various discilpines. The title acts as an artist pledge ‘to continue’… making, living, documenting, collaborating in a context of the events of 2020 and 2021 as well life in general. The last action on Richard Serra’s verblist encompasses an artist approach ‘to continue’… painting, sculpting, performing, drawing etc.
Domestic Comforts Exhibition
Michael Pennie Gallery, Bath Spa University.
April 12th - 16th, 2021.
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The exhibition Domestic Comforts was directly inspired by our current situation in lockdown, as we are all surrounded by our domestic objects and spaces whilst working and living in our homes; with everyone’s own space and personal objects being unique. Where most of us do not have physical human contact during this time, it’s interesting to see how our connection to inanimate objects becomes stronger. Especially in terms of the digital as our inanimate laptops become animate with our connections to friends and family through video calls and messages. As well as how certain spaces in our homes have aided our new routines, like our bedrooms becoming a new work spaces.
Curated by myself, each selected artist explored this personal theme in various mediums, including text pieces, photography, sculpture, collage, painting, and video pieces. Showing a wide range of approaches and styles when exploring our own surroundings and the things that brought us comfort during these difficult times. This theme will allow the audience to connect to the work on a personal level, as isolation has brought us closer to our domestic comforts due to our daily routines whilst stuck in these spaces.
