My artwork is all
based on my compulsive collecting of rubbish which is impulsive yet intuitive. The main things I make is
my beasts, assembled over a long period, added to as I find.
This process influences or rather conditions
the way I work: it enables me to use what I collect from the roadside,
discarded, unwanted, worthless material and transform it into artwork .
It was once said that
I am able to make ‘the mundane to become extraordinary, the insignificant and
overlooked to become iconic, the randomly accumulated totemic’.
Only recycled
materials are used my artwork. The sculptures are formed from a ritual process
of construction; added to over a period of time as objects are found; a merging
of everyday objects and primordial beasts
I always make do with whatever is at hand - bits and pieces are given a new uncharacteristic twist and change of aspect to take on new meaning. As a bricoleur I perhaps have a special freedom, but also a lack of freedom as what I collect is restricted by a lack of control reliant on a chance encounter; my materials are the debris of society. I attempt to lift the objects I collect out of their physical existence and incorporate them into my practice.
I always make do with whatever is at hand - bits and pieces are given a new uncharacteristic twist and change of aspect to take on new meaning. As a bricoleur I perhaps have a special freedom, but also a lack of freedom as what I collect is restricted by a lack of control reliant on a chance encounter; my materials are the debris of society. I attempt to lift the objects I collect out of their physical existence and incorporate them into my practice.
I have exhibited in solo as well as group exhibitions I was selected for a national
exhibition at Pallent House Gallery Chichester 2013 (one of the judges being Art Brut specialist Roger Cardinal) and was asked to create a display of sculpture at the 2012 RHS Malvern
Spring Gardening show ( now the RHS Malvern Spring Festival)
2020/21 Signs Intervention. Folk Art Collection: Compton Verney, Folk Art Collection, Warwickshire. (current)
2018 The Natural Eye, Society of Wildlife Artists, The Mall Galleries London
2018 Shortlisted for the Scottie Wilson commission at The Pallent House Gallery
2018 Outsidein Journeys Exhibition at Sotheby’s London
2015 Sculpture in the Garden, Showborough House, Gloucestershire.
2018 Shortlisted for the Scottie Wilson commission at The Pallent House Gallery
2018 Outsidein Journeys Exhibition at Sotheby’s London
2015 Sculpture in the Garden, Showborough House, Gloucestershire.
2013 Outsidein National Exhibition Pallent house gallery
2012 Sculpture garden RHS Malvern spring show
2011 Worcester arts trail participant
2010 A Confrontation with the Familiar : Solo Exhibition Hereford Museum and Art Gallery
2010 6 month Residency: Hereford Museums Resource Centre
1998 Welsh Open Oriel Davies Gallery
1986 -1990 Represented by Centaur Gallery London
1990 Guardian Art for sale Whiteley London
1986 -1990 Represented by Centaur Gallery London
