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 national
exhibitions at both Christies and Sotherbys London, as well as the Mall Galleries with the society of wildlife artists The 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.
2026 Christies London Shelter Exhibition
2025 New Art Gallery Walsall Shelter Exhibition 2020/21 Compton Verney, WarwickshireSigns Intervention. Folk Art Collection: .
2018 The Mall Galleries London, The Natural Eye, Society of Wildlife Artists.
2018 Shortlisted for the Scottie Wilson commission at The Pallent House Gallery
2018 Sotheby’s London, Outsidein Journeys Exhibition at
2015 Sculpture in the Garden, Showborough House, Gloucestershire.
2015 Sculpture in the Garden, Showborough House, Gloucestershire.
2013 Pallent house gallery, Outsidein National Exhibition
2012 RHS Malvern spring show, Sculpture garden
2011 Worcester arts trail participant
2010 Hereford Museum and Art Gallery A Confrontation with the Familiar: Solo Exhibition
2000 courtyard Arts Centre and theatre Hereford. Sculpture installation , Rooks on the Balcony and Piranhas in the Benjamina
1990 Whiteley London Guardian newspaper Art for sale
1998 Oriel Davies Gallery, Welsh Open
1986 -1990 Centaur Gallery Londo Represented by
Residences/conferences/media
2026 Participant in Reuse, Reclaim: Reframing sustainable arts practice
2025 Work included in Art as Refuge Conference New Art Gallery Walsall
2021 guest speaker on Goodfellows global materials suppliers podcast series, 'Materials inside' exploring the materials they produce through the eyes of artists,
designers, scientists and celebrity guests.
2020 featured in Locked in with Tom Allen magazine show Saturday night special
2010 6 month Residency: Hereford Museums Resource Centre
2011 Sculpture garden as a participant in Worcestershire Arts trail
