I am an artist and illustrator working in different mediums from drawing to video installation to explore the curiosities of the natural world. My work is informed by my interest in geological processes and the effect of time and erosion on the landscape. I am fascinated by traces and piecing together stories from objects and environments. Slow movement through the landscape by walking and more recently by sea on collaborative expeditions are an important part of my practice. I see the landscape as layers of overlapping drawings made throughout time by different entities.
Exhibitions
2020 Watch this (VR) Space, Virtual Reality Exhibition Gardens of Earthly Delight, Virtual Platform xviix Online Programme: All Creatures Great and Small 'A Stitch in Time' with Arts Territory Exchange as part of Documents Today, Today Art Museum, Beijing 2019 The Fragile Ocean, St John's Church in Bethnal Green, London Artists in the Field, Royal Geographical Society Pavilion, London Put this in Your Window and Think of Me (organised by Arts Territory Exchange), Cambridge Artworks, Cambridge 'The Invisible' The Dark Hour (collective), Maverick Projects, London Rock studies and field sketches, RGS North West, University of Cumbria, Ambleside Rock studies, Explore South West, Exeter University, Exeter 2018 The Sea: Our Other World, The Courtyard Gallery, Royal College of Art, London Rock studies, Explore Conference, Royal Geographical Society, London Sailing on a Plastic Sea - Sail Britain end of season event, St Katherine Docks, London RCA Show 2018, Westworks White City, London Gordon Peter Pickard Travel Drawing Award Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London DRAW ‘Radical Slowdown’, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London RCA Work in Progress Show, Royal College of Art, London 2017 Making Time, TAG (Theoretical Archeology Conference), Cardiff University Islands, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art Discoveries Channelled, Senior Common Room, Royal College of Art Merz Barn Residency Exhibition, The Crypt of St John Gallery, Bethnal Green, London, 2016 PSounday Artmix, Face 11, Cardiff 2015 The In Gallery, Cardiff School of Art and Design Degree Show, Cardiff School of Art and Design Behind the Door, Dyffryn House, Cardiff |
Education
MA Visual Communication (Distinction) Royal College of Art, London, June 2018 BA(Hons) Illustration, Cardiff School of Art and Design, June 2015 Talks Royal Geographical Society North West, 'Sail Britain: Learning on the seas, connecting with the ocean', University of Cumbria, Ambleside, 2019 Residencies & Expeditions 2019 The Wild Islands Artist Residency RAESxSail Britain 'Islands' Expedition to the Isle of Rum and the Small Isles, Isle of Purbeck, 'Walking through Time along Dorset's Jurassic Coast' 2018 Co-Leader of Across RCA Project-Maritime Traces, Great Yarmouth Sailing through Time: Geology Expedition (Artist in Residence) Muir is Tìr – Land and Sea Residency Fieldwork expedition, Chilterns Leader of The Royal Amateur Expedition Society (RAES) at the RCA 2017-2018 RAES Merz Barn, Lake District 2017 Co-Leader of Across RCA Islands Project/Expedition to the Isle of Sheppey 2017 RAESxSail Britain sailing expedition, Norfolk Broads 2017 RAES Merz Barn, Lake District 2017 LumenxRAES Astrophotography Expedition, Duddo Stones, Northumberland Earlier Beyond the Border Festival 2014 and 2016 Awards Sheila Robinson Memorial Award for Drawing 2018 Gordon Peter Pickard Drawing Travel Award 2017 Work featured in Illustration Research Methods, Rachel Gannon and Mirielle Fauchon, Bloomsbury, 2021 Brenda Magazine, Issue 5 STONE, 2019 Creative Defiance: Communication Work-in-Progress, Royal College of Art online, 2018 Chalk Up 21-Artists Respond to the Trail, 2017 |