I see my art as a tool.
I use it as a platform for self-reflection; to manage and understand my mental health.
I think it’s what I need to do to help myself.
I see the work I make as a by-product of an internal dialogue with a deeper sense of self.
I use it to create experiences and learn from.
I make my work for myself.
Im a mixed media artist based in Bristol. I currently use my art practice as a way of coping with mental health and chronic pain. I try to create links between my mental health and art in an attempt deepen the relationship I have with myself.
I think my practice is essentially cognitive behavioural therapy and my art is a by-product of this. Addressing my mental health has had to be my primary focus for the past few years and its felt like managing my health has consumed most of my time.
I’ve had to implement elements of CBT to my daily life to try and step away from thoughts and analyse my emotions. I feel like my work, and interests within my work, has helped me to make that process more interesting and allow me to approach my well being with a sense of curiosity, rather than desperation.
To me, my work functions as a tool to use in line with CBT. It forms a point of communication with myself and helps reveal some of the complexities behind my emotions. My aim is to develop ways of using my work as a bridge between my internal and external experience of life.
EDUCATION
2013-2016 University of the West of England, Bristol, BA Fine Art (First class)
2012-2013 Coleg Sir Gar, Foundation Diploma Art & Design
EXHIBITIONS
2018
RUNG Magazine launch
2017
Commission for Greenman
Festival
2016
Ingram Collection Young
Contemporary Talent
No Laughing No Barking
Cruising
Spike Open
UWE+RAM Dome Project
The End
Parallels
2015
Spike Open
Neo-Portraiture
Chewing the Scenery
ON
2014 Mid-Year Show
STAGE VISUALS
2018
'The Constant Drone' ,
Dark Place Productions
(Theatre set design)
2017
Music Video Commission
'Wireless'
RUIN II
RUIN
Tribe of Swan II
2016
Funktion Tek X Bad Design
Tribe of Swan
The Orator
kaleidoscope
Sinewave
Phil Me In
2015
Funktion Tek
Residencies
2016
Digital and light R&D
residency
Trinity Centre, Bristol
Greenman Festival, Glanusk
Cello Factory, London
UWE Spike Island Bristol
The Edwardian Cloakroom, Bristol
UWE Spike Island, Bristol
Camden Forge, London.
@Bristol Planetarium, Bristol
123 Space, Bristol
The Island, Bristol
UWE Spike Island, Bristol
The Island, Bristol
The Island, Bristol
Southbank, Bristol
UWE Spike Island, Bristol
PRSC Space, Bristol
PO Griff, Winger Records
The Garage, Swansea
The Scene, Swansea
The Scene, Swansea
The Scene, Swansea
The Scene, Swansea
Theatre West, The Acta Centre, Bristol
The Small Horse, Bristol
The Cells, Bristol
Wilder Studios, Bristol
The Lemon Factory, Swansea
Greenman festival 2016, Glanusk
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