Paper Works, RWA Biennial 2025
Paper Works at the Royal West of England Academy is a survey exhibition featuring some of the finest contemporary art created on and with paper in recent years.
With 170 artists showcased, the exhibition offers a vibrant overview of contemporary practice. Whilst the majority of the works are by South West based artists, the selection is diverse, presenting pieces from a broad spectrum of makers
I’m thrilled to have been included. My Sennen / EPC / chine collé photopolymer etching, originally created for my Experimental Print Club, was displayed in a fantastic spot in the main gallery.
Varnishing day, RWA Candidates Exhibition 2024
It was an honour to be selected as a candidate to become an academician in 2024. The successful candidates go on to become academicians for life and gain the right to exhibit work at the annual open as well as join a thriving group of career artists, mostly based in Bristol and the South West.
The candidate’s exhibition is a significant part of the selection process; each artist is invited to hang three works in the Kenny Gallery, and on the varnishing day the candidates gather in the gallery to field questions from academicians, whilst standing in close proximity to their work.
I have to say I really enjoyed the day, and the exhibition too. Having done quite a lot of ‘front of house work’ at shows and fairs over the past two decades I’ve become entirely used to talking about the work and what it means to me, as well as sharing ideas and thoughts around production and framing as well of course.
Print Club News / October 2023
I’ve been making and refining my glass edition, entitled Vessel, over the summer. It remains a work in progress. The top image in the newsletter is of a 3d printed, one to one scale PLA maquette of the work, ready to be burnt out in the kiln, ahead of being cast into glass.
I’ll be working with Dr Angela Thwaites, a noted British glassmaker, in her London studio later in the autumn, in the hope of completing the work before Christmas. There’s a lot of polishing and grinding involved to complete the 11 glass components that make up the work.