Artist Statement

My moral obligation to stage moments of potent experience has to envelop frangibility and discount absoluteness. Through liquidity and the manipulation of personal and found photography, my paintings engage with the slippage of reminiscence. By dredging and mining various forms of imagery the paintings become evidence for something tangible yet inconsequential. I use nostalgia and remembrance as a tool to internalize the traditions of British painting, in order to comment on both personal and external cultural factors. Through this melancholic and poetic lens, the paintings seduce the viewer with convention but leave room for fragmentation and intervention, both physically and literally. The painting withstands weathering and condensing to only show the essential. The stripping down reduces the painting of flourish to bring a more direct sense of place. My pursuit for an inward representation of landscape is challenged by the painting’s facility to serve as reminders of distance. The paintings are informed by the effects of distance. Distance in terms of my relation to the subject. Distance in my physical relation to the painting in the studio, and the distance of recollection. However, my paintings capture the residue from experience and detachment, they are a platform that restages rupture. 

 

EDUCATION

Rhode Island School of Design, MFA Painting 2019 

Glasgow School of Art, BA (Hons) Painting and Printmaking 2016

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021

Vignettes and Pathways, group exhibition, curated by Sam Drake, Crownpoint Project Space, Glasgow, 2021

Awards Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy 2021. Edinburgh, UK 

2019

RISD Graduate Painting Thesis Show, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY, 

New Contemporaries, RISD Museum Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI

Crocodile Tears, Morgan Fine Arts Building, Brooklyn, NY, Curated by Kate Mothes (yngspc)

Grad Selections , Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI

RISD Graduate Show, Providence, RI, 

Fresh Faces, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts 

Arusha Gallery at London Art Fair 2019 -Arusha Gallery


2018

Graduate Painting Biennial, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence

Expectations, Field Projects Gallery, New York, New York 

Oli Epp Studio Residency, The Koppel Project, London 

Velvet Ropes, GIFC Norway Tour by Galleri Golsa 

LA Summer, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh

 

2017

The Royal Glasgow Institute of The Fine Arts New Graduate Prize, Kelly Gallery, Glasgow

Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh 

WAC Rewind, Bishops Palace, Wells 

RSA New Contemporaries, The Mound, Royal Scottish Academy

 2016 

Wells Art Contemporary, Bishops Palace, Wells

RSA Open Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy Galleries, Edinburgh 

Best of Degree Show, Sixfoot Gallery, Pentagon Centre,

Glasgow Glasgow School of Art Degree Show, The Tontine Building, Glasgow

Painters Gonna Paint, The Tontine Building, Glasgow 

Lynn Painter-Stainers , Mall Galleries

London Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, 

Rising Stars, Lloyds Register Gallery, London 

W. Gordon Smith Award, Dovecot Gallery, Edinburgh 

2014 

Richard Ford Award, Travel Scholarship to Museo Del Prado, Madrid 

AWARDS

The RSA William Littlejohn Award 2019

Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Second Grant Award 2018

Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant Award 2017

The Professor Baruch Kirschenbaum Term Scholarship 2017-2019

RISD Fellowship 2017-2019

Walter Scott Purchase Prize 2017

RSA New Contemporaries Selected Artist 2016 

Wells Art Contemporary Award, (45 Park Lane Mayfair Prize) 2016 

Royal Scottish Academy Keith Prize 2016

The Royal Glasgow Institute Glasgow School of Art Graduate Award

Richard Ford Award 2014 

COLLECTIONS

Brown Arts Initiative Collection, Brown University, USA

Walter Scott Collection, Edinburgh 

 

PUBLICATIONS

Brandeis University: Brandies Blacklist Journal Volume IV

Saatchi Art: Invest In Art 2017 Report: Emerging Artists to Buy Now

RSA New Contemporaries, 18th February-15th March 2017, The Royal Scottish Academy p 46

https://www.saatchiart.com/invest-in-art

http://www.theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2017/02/rsa-new-contemporaries/