Date of Birth: 8th August 1973


Education: 2006/07 MA Ceramics, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff.
2003/06 BA (Hons), UWIC.


Exhibitions:
• Oriel Kooywood Gallery Cardiff Group Show, August 2008.
• Welsh Artist of the Year 2008 – June 22nd.
• June 2008, UWIC End of Year show.
• Sept 2007, MA final show, UWIC.
• July 2006, Final degree show, UWIC.
• June 2006, Parables exhibition (contemporary religious art) Bishop of Llandaff Church-in-Wales High School. Touring exhibition that will be displayed in 13 church schools within South Wales.
• June 2005, Craft in the Bay, Cardiff Bay, UWIC group exhibition.


Residencies: June 2006, Bishop of Llandaff Church-in-Wales High School, one week project based activity to create artwork to be housed within school. Year 6 and 7 pupils participated 60 children in total.


Awards: Winner of Craft Council and Arts Council of Wales ‘Next Move’ Residency scheme (1 of 2 awards for Wales) 2007.

Arts and Humanities Research Council awarded full award to cover costs and maintenance whilst completing the MA program 2006-7.


Teaching: UWIC BA and MA programs as part of residency.



Artists Statement
The primary focus of my studio practice is to create pieces that encapsulated a state of flux, using a recognisable object to convey the notice of the conscious and unconscious brain working in unison and reflect its constantly changing states. The sole aim was the creation of pieces that set up a dialogue between conscious/unconscious using deformation and representation to reference the human body whilst rejecting its usual presentation.

Strongly referencing Psychoanalytical debater and specifically the state of abject, my practice explores the notion of self in constant flux based firmly within societies beliefs and ideologies. The state of the abject means neither subject nor object and it symbolises the breakdown of borders and boundaries which in turn threatens autonomy and substance. It touches upon the fragility of borders between inside and outside, subjecthood is troubled and meaning collapses.

My work deals with the abject and more importantly the hope and questioning born out of the state; it’s through times of crisis individuals, families and communities find an inner strength that will inform them for the remainder of their lives.

From direct body cast alterations are made to create pieces that have a voice that speaks of something other than our external persona and draws the viewer into the piece like the state of abjection however, the works are predominately presented in a classical style that makes the forms less troublesome to view; as these works are not aiming to provoke the abject in the viewer but instead to draw them to a time when they have experienced something that has changed them forever.